A different kind of axle question
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Ok where to start... What I'm wondering is how much weight could a front dana 30 carry with stock tires and no lift. The question comes from this. When building my jeep I didn't want to do what I did last time. Which was lift, armour, winch, tires, and I just kept making it heavier so, my solution was to start with a better power plant to start so I was looking at bruiser conversions 4bt. From the numbers that I got for the engine and tranny
Stock is around 600 lb.
4bt is around 1000 lb.
Later on I will be swapping to a junkyard 60 in the front.
I guess where I'm going is should a stock dana 30 be ok or should I spend the $180 and truss it to be on the safe side.
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Stock is around 600 lb.
4bt is around 1000 lb.
Later on I will be swapping to a junkyard 60 in the front.
I guess where I'm going is should a stock dana 30 be ok or should I spend the $180 and truss it to be on the safe side.
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Ok where to start... What I'm wondering is how much weight could a front dana 30 carry with stock tires and no lift. The question comes from this. When building my jeep I didn't want to do what I did last time. Which was lift, armour, winch, tires, and I just kept making it heavier so, my solution was to start with a better power plant to start so I was looking at bruiser conversions 4bt. From the numbers that I got for the engine and tranny
Stock is around 600 lb.
4bt is around 1000 lb.
Later on I will be swapping to a junkyard 60 in the front.
I guess where I'm going is should a stock dana 30 be ok or should I spend the $180 and truss it to be on the safe side.
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Stock is around 600 lb.
4bt is around 1000 lb.
Later on I will be swapping to a junkyard 60 in the front.
I guess where I'm going is should a stock dana 30 be ok or should I spend the $180 and truss it to be on the safe side.
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Yeah your probably right I'll just truss the damn thing. As far as the added torque. I'm gonna go easy on it I don't plan on destroying my rear diff by gunning it off the line. That being said that problem will be solved when I swap out axles. Dana60 front sterling 10.5 rear. But it will be a while before I can get them to start converting them for jk use.
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