dana 60 hubs

[jeepzilla47]

will front dana 60 hubs interchange with rear hubs?

[Bob Barry]

No.

[jeepzilla47]

do you know what it would take to swap them?

[Crazy_Jeepman]

custom axles, fabricating a way to mount spindles from the front to the rear, brake issues, thats just off the top of my head. What is it you are trying to do?

[jeepzilla47]

this is for a side project.....i am trying to get a heavy duty rear end in my nissan titan.....i have a ff d61 laying around ( i know about the thick gear and spacers needed) anyway, i wanted to make the full floater to a six lug....

[Stuka]

You can buy custom hubs to change to 6 lug. I think moser makes a kit to do this. I know dynatrack will do it, but I think they cost more. There is also the issue of the center hole on your wheels, they will need to be larger to fit the D60 hub through.

[jeepzilla47]

i planned on getting new rims anyway.....i emailed dynatrac last week and they havent email me back.....i figured i would need to adapt a set of front hubs with custom shafts so i could get the six lug pattern. i believe the ff hub is too big to get the 6 on 5.5 (or metric equivilant) drilled into it.....i might just run eight lug rims and use wheel adapters on the front...

[JeepsAndGuns]

Heck, if your gonna swap the rear axle, just go ahead and swap in a matching front axle too. That way you dont have to worry about custom hubs or wheel adapters.

[jeepzilla47]

Heck, if your gonna swap the rear axle, just go ahead and swap in a matching front axle too. That way you dont have to worry about custom hubs or wheel adapters.


if it was only that easy.....steering looks like it would be the hardest part of the swap...i would have to get rid of the rack&pinion and swap in a steering box.....that is a little much to do in a weekend......

[Stuka]

It would be a major pain to swap a front axle into a Titan. And you would lose the anti lock brakes and such too. The Titan's IFS system is actually pretty decent, uses coil overs and such, unlike the POS GM setup with torsion bars. And I was just thinking, I think the only D60 that dynatrac offers (for a rear setup) with 6 on 5.5 is a D60-2 (semi floater). But I may be wrong. See if they ever respond to you.

[JeepsAndGuns]

Is the full floating part the only reason your wanting to do this swap? Or are you just wanting a stronger rear axle? A semi float D60 might not be that bad of an idea. It would be a lot easyer to get the 6 lug pattern on there. And I dont know mutch about the semi floaters, but you could mabey even use a 35 spline carrier and have some nice heavy duty semi float 35 spline shafts made. But then agan, I dont build axles for a living, so that might not even be possiable, but its a cool idea. Whats wrong with the axle in the titan right now, did ya blow it up?

[jeepzilla47]

i was originally thinking about a semi floater...that is what a four wheel drive mag did....(dynatrac 60)....but i am checking all options....plus, who wouldnt want a full float axle?

[Stuka]

The D60-2 does have way bigger bearings than a D44, so it would still be an improvement, and most every D60-2 that I have seen has had 35 spline shafts. Well, at least the Jeep and Ford versions I have seen. Dodge used them too, but I am not sure what their spline count is.

[jtr]

I vote for solid axle swap, it is a lot of work no doubt, but it is nice to have something that is reliable and gets good mileage. Plus you have the comforts of a new rig with the ease of maintance of older axles. I did a SAS on my Nissan (Cherokee Chief axle) and love it, I never have problems at high elevations or on steep angles. Oh I pass a lot more gas stations too!


As for the ABS, get a dodge 60 (rear) is has the necessary sensor needed to keep the braking system "stock". Here is a good link to SAS Titan info and rear axle swap to a 60.

http://www.wfoconcepts.com/Projects/NissanTitan/index.html#

Taken from the site mentioned above..hope this helps

"The rear Dana 60HD axle was plucked from a 1989 Dodge 1 ton truck. I chose this specific axle, due to the fact that it already had large diameter spindles on it. Almost all Dana 60 rear axles are inferior axles, including this one in stock form. For some reason, Ford, Chevy, and Dodge have been putting 30 spline axle shafts in these axles for 40 years. This means that the actual shaft diameter is only the size of a half ton axle. The best upgrade for these weak shafts is to bump up to larger diameter 35 spline shafts. However, if you don't find a 60HD axle, the 35 spine shafts will not fit through the spindle. Some people bore the spindles out, but I don't like to do that. In this case, the 60HD spindle of the Dodge was already a larger diameter. All I had to do was change the side gears, and slide in a set of 35 spline shafts from a Dodge Dana 70 Rear axle. Another benefit to the Dodge 60HD, is the presence of a speed sensor on the ring gear. This can be very helpful when adapting in the use of ABS and electronic speed sensors."

[Stuka]

Inferior axle to what? The shafts may be the same size as a D44, but its a full floater, meaning none of the weight of the vehicle is on that shaft, making it much stronger than a D44. Not to mention the R&P size diference, and tube thickness. 35 spline shafts are nice, but when moving from a D44 and keeping stock tires, a stock D60 is plenty.