Re: JPOR: Shaved pigs...

[Steve Friend <sfriend@xxxxxxxx>]

Hey, I was not even told it hit the press. Kewl.  John, with all the neat
things we do to our rigs, you really need to try this one.  It is way neat.
I have been driving the Dana 44 long before you were out here in Cal.  To
think that I would have to relearn the ground clearance of the rear axle
again was way beyond my capabilities:)  Seriously, this one is worth doing.

SF

John Nutter wrote:

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> Steve Friend has a great article on shaving down a Dana 60 diff to get
> more ground clearance on www.jeepwire.com this month. Anyone who's been
> thinking about this should take a look at it. The article is at
> http://www.outdoorwire.com/4x4/tech/shaved60/
>
> Steve, that's a great tip about the welding rod that doesn't require
> pre-heating. It's spendy, but I may have to pick some up for
> emergencies. I know what Jason was talking about when he said that Dana
> diff castings are more like a forging. Dana uses cast nodular iron. Cast
> nodular is a lot more ductile and a lot easier to weld to versus plain
> old gray cast iron. As I understand it, the main reason is that the
> carbon inclusions in cast nodular are round nodules and in cast iron
> they are flat flakes.
>
> I may have to do this to my Dana 44s :)
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