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i know the 05- f-450 and up use the super 60. The Dana Super 60 high-pinion front axle is based on the traditional Ford Dana 60-everything's just a little bit bigger. The 84.74-inch-wide axle (an F-350 front axle is 69.8 inches wide) was designed for the '05-and newer F-450 and F-550 Super Dutys, where it's rated to support 7,000 pounds of gross axle weight
The 250 and 350 were also beefed up, Then Ford increased the front axle weight rating of the F-250/350's Dana 60 to 6,000 pounds by adding thicker-wall axletubes, 1 1/2-inch 35-spline outer axleshafts, and larger unit-bearing hubs. If you opt for 4.30 axle gears you'll get a Dana 60 with a 10-inch ring gear (a traditional one is 9 3/4). To help control that extra mass, the brakes have been upsized to 13.66 inches with larger calipers that make 17-inch wheels required.
If that's not enough might for you, there's the 7,000-pound capacity of the F-450/550 Super 60 front axle. Ford engineers call it the Fat Boy because it's approximately 3 inches wider than the F-250/350 version. The Fat Boy uses 1 1/2-inch 35-spline shafts too, the 10-inch Dana 60 gearset (4.88 or 5.38 ratios), larger SPL70 (1550) series steering joints, larger end forgings and knuckles, 14.53-inch rotors, and 10-lug hubs. Fat Boy permits nearly 45 degrees of turning at the knuckle! You might be able to mix and match parts to put the eight-lug unit-bearing hubs from the F-250/350 on the Fat Boy axle to get the big steering joints on a the F-250/350, but the Ford guys weren't at liberty to discuss parts swapping
Here is the info i have on the 05 and up ford dana 60
The 250 and 350 were also beefed up, Then Ford increased the front axle weight rating of the F-250/350's Dana 60 to 6,000 pounds by adding thicker-wall axletubes, 1 1/2-inch 35-spline outer axleshafts, and larger unit-bearing hubs. If you opt for 4.30 axle gears you'll get a Dana 60 with a 10-inch ring gear (a traditional one is 9 3/4). To help control that extra mass, the brakes have been upsized to 13.66 inches with larger calipers that make 17-inch wheels required.
If that's not enough might for you, there's the 7,000-pound capacity of the F-450/550 Super 60 front axle. Ford engineers call it the Fat Boy because it's approximately 3 inches wider than the F-250/350 version. The Fat Boy uses 1 1/2-inch 35-spline shafts too, the 10-inch Dana 60 gearset (4.88 or 5.38 ratios), larger SPL70 (1550) series steering joints, larger end forgings and knuckles, 14.53-inch rotors, and 10-lug hubs. Fat Boy permits nearly 45 degrees of turning at the knuckle! You might be able to mix and match parts to put the eight-lug unit-bearing hubs from the F-250/350 on the Fat Boy axle to get the big steering joints on a the F-250/350, but the Ford guys weren't at liberty to discuss parts swapping
Here is the info i have on the 05 and up ford dana 60
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