zstroken
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I miss alot. I think maybe I am following what your saying. You tighten the bar down on top of the caps using longer than stock cap bolts?
All out D80 Mods????
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I miss alot. I think maybe I am following what your saying. You tighten the bar down on top of the caps using longer than stock cap bolts?
seeker1056
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yes - and i found a pic that would illustrate but cant seem to post it
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Basically ken what your saying is make a thick girdle, with the bars that is one piece.. very similar to how the girdles would be for our motors in our trucks????????
if you make a thick girdle that has the shape of the flange, and then had two bars that would then bolt to the caps, '' keeping in mind this is machined from one solid billet peice'' you would then bolt it in place with the main caps, and then after its torqued to spec, you would then put the stock dana 80 cover back on and put longer bolts in, to hold the cover on and the new thick girdle on. is this what your talking about????? because i think that would be a good idea, it would tie everything together and be very stong,
if you make a thick girdle that has the shape of the flange, and then had two bars that would then bolt to the caps, '' keeping in mind this is machined from one solid billet peice'' you would then bolt it in place with the main caps, and then after its torqued to spec, you would then put the stock dana 80 cover back on and put longer bolts in, to hold the cover on and the new thick girdle on. is this what your talking about????? because i think that would be a good idea, it would tie everything together and be very stong,
seeker1056
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it is exactly what i am thinking, and would be very easy to do
I dont even think it would have to be one piece but could be several pieces, then all welded together as a unit not unlike some of the girldes made for the cummins bottom end
I dont even think it would have to be one piece but could be several pieces, then all welded together as a unit not unlike some of the girldes made for the cummins bottom end
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You can put a thrust bolt in an 80. I just took my D80 apart and it has one in it. Someone else set up the axle so don't ask exactly how it was done. Will take pics this weekend.
Dazed&Confused
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Is that JB weld holding it in there?
RyanB
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I have looked into this quite a bit for my current truck my brother and I are building and its looking like with all these mods...you can make the Dana 80 survive. I have a 100% custom diff cover/girdel I am putting together right now and hopefully I can keep those gears from spreading.
RyanB
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seeker1056
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hey Ryan - care t oshare pix of your girdle? We may try something similar with our 10.25
This rearend has been together for about 8 years or so. Was originally in a 1000hp super stock truck then into a lesser powered open stock truck then I got it. Ring gear cracked a couple of teeth so that is the reason for disassembly.
Yes, gasket maker to seal it up. There is a nut welded on the outside of the housing that the bolt threads into.
Fireman450
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Bringing this one back...
Any new updates??? Seems to be the only thing I need right now to keep the rear end on my 2wd together.
Lynn
Any new updates??? Seems to be the only thing I need right now to keep the rear end on my 2wd together.
Lynn
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Actually we have had ours done for a month or two now!
We landed up going with a multi-layer unit laser cut out of 3/4" plate. We chose to go this route as it was quite a bit cheaper than a one off casting and it also saved alot of expensive machine work as we could do all the drilling/welding ourselves. Under the steer cylinder are the two holes for the load bolts for pressing against the bearing caps and we also chose to put in 4-5/16" dowel pins to locate the cover to the housing and to keep it from spreading. Everything is attached with grade8 allen bolts and works great. We now have the welds all ground down on the sides of it and it looks like one solid junk of billet. It does way over 100lbs with the cylinder but thats not really a bad thing seeing in our application weight on the front axle is a good thing! Turned out to be a very simple steering setup with very few moving parts and should work great.
Here are a few pics....Ryan
We landed up going with a multi-layer unit laser cut out of 3/4" plate. We chose to go this route as it was quite a bit cheaper than a one off casting and it also saved alot of expensive machine work as we could do all the drilling/welding ourselves. Under the steer cylinder are the two holes for the load bolts for pressing against the bearing caps and we also chose to put in 4-5/16" dowel pins to locate the cover to the housing and to keep it from spreading. Everything is attached with grade8 allen bolts and works great. We now have the welds all ground down on the sides of it and it looks like one solid junk of billet. It does way over 100lbs with the cylinder but thats not really a bad thing seeing in our application weight on the front axle is a good thing! Turned out to be a very simple steering setup with very few moving parts and should work great.
Here are a few pics....Ryan