The Ultimate 44 has pinion and caster correction, but I don't think the Mopar HD Housing (Part Number P5160036) does. Is there a Mopar housing that includes pinion and caster correction?

 

Forgive me if I missed it, but what failed/broke on the axle?

 

Rancho, it would appear something was set-up incorrectly with the pinion, I attached some pics of the internals. Keep in mind, my part of this was to bolt my control arms up, put the knuckles on and install the shafts. I hadn't even wired up the locker yet and had only driven approx 5 miles after servicing the dif with Royal Purple 75w140

I went to 4Wheel Parts today to compare my new axle shaft with the shaft from the "old" broken axle. What do you know, it's longer. This is some serious bad quality control from Dana-Spicer. Fortunately I was able to take the old shaft and leave the new one and will install that in the axle. Not quite sure how I ended up with the wrong shaft. Props to the guys at 4 Wheel Parts in Sacramento, Scott and another guy whose name i can't remember were amazingly helpful!

 

The UD44 can be ordered with or without caster/pinion correction. The Mopar D44HD/J8 does not come with caster/pinion correction.

 

What was the outcome of this? In the process of installing the same axle with the same issue. Did Dana send you a new shaft? Did you cut yours???

 

The outcome? New shaft? The D44HD/J8 housing has the same pinion angle and caster as the regular factory Housing. This is not a flaw, You use geo brackets or adjustable control arms to dial the angle in.

 

I think you are missing the point of the thread. Spicer provided me a passenger side axle shaft that was too long, like the op (with the purchase of the complete axle unit marketed as "the ultimate Dana 44"). Thankfully a buddy of mine provided me a loaner shaft. What I am interested in is how Spicer handled the situation. Did they send a new shaft, have him cut the provided shaft or if there is a trick we are missing. Spicer opens in eight minutes, I will be calling them. Would have been nice to see someone else's experience.

 

You quoted my post so I was not sure why you were asking me. I did not order a complete assembly. I purchased the Mopar housing and built my own.

 

So it seems that my axle (with e-locker) shipped with shafts for an ARB locker, which is no longer an option in these units. Those shafts are longer on the passenger end and shorter on the drivers side.

Spicer shipped me the proper shafts, which are due in today on their dime. We will see what happens.

Bummer is it is on my dime to hold my daily up for a day as well as paying the shop for double time. Spicer didn't seem to care about that, pretty frustrating.

That being said, I hope I don't have additional issues. But with this service I wish I had my local shop build up a Dynatrac, as they would back the build up.