Dana 60 question (conversion)

[L. Vargas]

This is for a friend. He has a dana 60 out of a 1 ton, and wants to covert it to use normal wheels. It takes the big 1 ton looking wheels now. He wants to swap into another vehicle, but wants to use the normal wheels.

[ January 30, 2003, 04:05 PM: Message edited by: L. Vargas ]

[flyboy]

Are we talking about a front or rear? If it's a front and has the spacers for the dually, you just need to convert it back.

[scotty]

if we are refering to the front,he can use hummer rims to narrow the track width(they have like 7" of backspacing) or he can swap out the dually hubs for single wheel hubs. easy,tho expensive.

[L. Vargas]

yes this is for the front, I seen him tonight at Checker. He was ordering everything they had for the dana 60, as far as for a regular front end, non-1 ton stuff. He had seen it somewhere online, that a guy had done this for his Rock-Crawler Scout.

He still isn't sure what he needs, thats why he is ordering everything that Checker lists.

[scotty]

any 60 is a 1 ton axle.

im assuming that what your friend has is an axle with deep dished wheels,is that correct? this axle has the wheel surface mounted further outward to allow the use of a deep dish dually rim on the front, so that i dual rear wheeled truck can use 6 of the same rims.

you can run a standard wheel on this axle,but doing so will increase the track width by at least 12 inches,as the dually hub moves the wheel mounting surface out at least 6 inches per side

in order to covert his front end to the same axle a single rear wheel truck would use(or the non-1 ton wheel a you put it ;) ) he will have to remove the hub/rotor assembly,and swap it for the pieces used in a single wheel truck.

these hubs are expensive and generally go for $200+ apiece used,unless you maybe find someone willing to trade you

hate to be the bearer of bad news,but i dont think simply ordering everything that checker has for a non 1 ton d60 is going to give you the right pieces to produce the desired results.

if he did order the hub/rotor assembly id expect he prolly paid over $300 apiece for new ones :eek:

hope this helps

[L. Vargas]

Thanks Scotty, I will pass this info to him.