How common are reverse threaded lugs on d60 rears. Also which is stronger, FF d60 or a SF 10.25. I'm leaning towards the 60.

 

Ive never had a D60 rear with reverse threads. Thats something a little more common with bigger axles.


Sterling 10.25 all the way over a D60 if it were FF. Semifloat axles suck nuts.

 

Kinda figured on the SF thing.


The lugs on the D60 in my truck are reverse thread, I've never seen one like it before.

 

dana60 rears go ka-boom to easy under abuse, but if you want to throw money at it, you can beef every part of it, or you could get a 10.25 and be pretty well set. they have their probles too, but i've only seen massive failure on ones with ginormous tires and crazy power going to em

 

Are you sure its a 60? I have a reverse-threaded 70.

 

Ill tell you a D60 is living behind a 521 and 39.5 boggers quite well actually BUT the same exact axle behind 466 making almost half the horsepower with 38.5 SXs was busting 1541h shafts.

At some point horsepower takes over and will keep the tires spinning regardless of the terrain. Under the same circumstances a lower horsepower truck cant keep those tires spinning and things can get bound up which is when 99% of breakages occur.


All that being said...

Sterling 10.25 FF, D70 or 14bt is where its at.

Im building a 70 now.

 

It's also completely possible someone swapped out the lugs, maybe they were broken or rusted or something similar and the previous owner thought he'd be better off with the reverse threads.

 

i've seen more 60 rears broken into scrap and shavings than 7.5's 8.8's and ttb front's combined. what is the ttb hate all about? i had 36's and 38's with 4.11's, a truetrac front, detroit rear, 400 hp 460, and a heavy *** foot. managed to twist the splines off a 9 inch shaft but no ttb problems

 

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i don't know how it survived. most of the holes i used to run through were deep and had flat walls at the end from people getting stuck. lots of cranked wheel digging at w.o.t. and seasawing to find some upward traction. i did trash a set of hubs, but that was it. i do miss the ride of the ttb, but not the death wobble though

 

Sounds like you got yerself a Dana 61. Does it have large 3.5" axle tubes with a slight taper at the end of the tube where it meets drum just like a dana 70 but has small dana 60 ring gear and 30 spline axles. My d61 had left hand thread on one side like the dana 70 one ton with a 1 1/16 lug nut. The thing about dana 61's are they have a different offset for the carrier with it being offset away from pinion for use of gears no lower than a 4:10! only advantage is it has the larger bore spindles to allow a upgrade to 35 spline axles without having to bore spindles. I shoved my dana 70 35 splines in there just to check the clearance.
Sterling 10.25 would be a much better axle.
I researched ALOT to find out which axle I wanted and I came up with this
Dana70:
largest 35 spline axle over 14 bolt( very minor but with a caliper it was bigger) with a fine 35 spline.
better ground clearance over 14 bolt
expensive lockers. My detroit ran me about $900
Came in a factory ford
14 bolt:
Cheap!Easy to find
detroit lockers are more like a lunch box locker just replacing the spiders.$300
coarse splines,slightly smaller. very minimal
low ground clearance. Its a dog
Didnt come in a ford truck!
Sterling 10.25:
overall good axle just a step below 70/14 bolt for strength.
Expensive lockers again
Easy to find

Conclusion...I went with a dana70!
Cost more,looks better and is found in a ford(although they came in almost every dodge deisel,and some one ton chevs mainly dually I think though) If I were to build a cheap trail rig I'd go with a 14 bolt for sure..
Weakest to Strongest Axles - Jp Magazine

only one I disagree with is where they listed the 2 1/2 rockwell..^^^

 

Yeah the tubes taper down at the drums and one side is reverse thread and the other normal. Didnt know there was a D61 rear.

 

dana 61=******* child of one night stand between d60 and d70

 

Got another for yall. Am I better of keeping the C6 BW1345 combo or should I swap the Np435 and 208f. Now regardless I plan on putting the np435 in eventually but I'm leaning more towards keeping the BW in the truck simply because I really like the idea of not having a slip yoke on the t-case incase something breaks.

Now the reason I'm askin is because I have a parts truck behind the house that has to go and I want to figure out what to sell and what to keep for mine.

 

I have one simple thing that can answer that: