What did you do to your non-G body project today? [2020]

[MrSony]

Driving in that town is spirited driving in the country where the truck belongs. First thing, I doubt it is a Dana 44. Probably a Dana 60. They put 44's in the front of heavy duty trucks not the rear. What do you consider cheap? 500? Doug's Four wheel Drive will have all kinds of them. It might be cheaper to buy another truck for the differential. If you come up my way I know where there are plenty of old trucks sitting.

there's a salvage yard near me with a few of them trucks, ive also driven by dougs but haven't seen inside. theres a 4.10 60 on marketplace for $400 im tempted to get if its still available. it's in a green super cab a guy is parting.

correction: salvage yard near me wants $250 for a 60 if they got one. I know they have a hand full of 73-79 trucks there. afaik the only stipulation is I need one from a rwd truck as the 4wd have a wide frame.

 

[Turbo Zach]

there's a salvage yard near me with a few of them trucks, ive also driven by dougs but haven't seen inside. theres a 4.10 60 on marketplace for $400 im tempted to get if its still available. it's in a green super cab a guy is parting.

correction: salvage yard near me wants $250 for a 60 if they got one. I know they have a hand full of 73-79 trucks there. afaik the only stipulation is I need one from a rwd truck as the 4wd have a wide frame.

Why don't you see what broke first? It takes ten minutes. A Dana 60 axel does not break putting around town! I have never heard a two wheel drive frame being narrower. Spring mounts might be a little different. You have leaf springs and a welder. About any eight bolt rear will work.

 

[MrSony]

Why don't you see what broke first? It takes ten minutes. A Dana 60 axel does not break putting around town! I have never heard a two wheel drive frame being narrower. Spring mounts might be a little different. You have leaf springs and a welder. About any eight bolt rear will work.

It might have been the high boy frame or something but I've read a lot of places there are key width diffferences between frames on some models.
Edit: yes high boy thinner.
A shitty 110v flux core with no voltage settings... Id get better results welding with car batteries and rebar.

That's the plan once I get home at 6am. I bet it's spider gears. And yep, the dana 61 broke putting around town. Right infront of the Capitol.

 

[MrSony]

cross pin broke in 3 pieces. cant find the 3rd. unless it has a smooth machined end and an end that looks like it was snapped off.
doesnt seem to be any damage to the ring or pinion or spider gears. sh*t i think a new cross pin thing and ****in send it

 

[fleming442]

cross pin broke in 3 pieces. cant find the 3rd. unless it has a smooth machined end and an end that looks like it was snapped off.
doesnt seem to be any damage to the ring or pinion or spider gears. sh*t i think a new cross pin thing and ****in send it
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yep, send it!

 

[Supercharged111]

cross pin broke in 3 pieces. cant find the 3rd. unless it has a smooth machined end and an end that looks like it was snapped off.
doesnt seem to be any damage to the ring or pinion or spider gears. sh*t i think a new cross pin thing and ****in send it
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Concur, I've done this to a diff that did damage the ring and pinion and I still sent it.

 

[81cutlass]

Still no luck on finding an Omega close (sub 16hrs) that's not roached.

 

[1320John$$$]

Put front shocks on the 2500 didn’t realize how bad they were until I remove the plow
Put a new battery in her while I was at it
Let it snow

 

[fleming442]

Got the drivetrain installed on the uGear horse model with the kid. That's attempt #2; the 1st ain't go so good. Have to hang the axles still, but the wind up band works and the head moves, now.

 

[81cutlass]

Well my FIL's 4 year mustang restoration saga he undertook is done enough to be home. He outsourced all the work and it was a mess that reinforced why I'm not ever hiring out a resto. The guy handling the mechanical stuff ended up not putting any of the down payment towards anything on the car and funneled the money into something else and my FIL had to take the guy to court to get his money back and had to get the police to reclaim the car and engine from the shop. Engine ended up getting a rattle can rebuild by the first guy and it needed to get rebuilt for real the second time for real by another place. His body shop owner had it in body shop prison for 3 years and had his house burn down in the middle of it all so it took a really long time to get quarters, body and paint done.

I've been storing the Cutlass and the wagon for the winter in the garage, and since I sold the wagon and was planning to put the 2+2 in there this winter but got booted since his mustang is doneish.

It's a legit 64.5 289 4 speed car and looks real nice. But, it still has a multitude of issues that need worked out since it got punted from shop to shop. It goes good but stops and steers like total garbage. It's a manual 4wheel drum car and there's about 30 degrees of slop in the steering. I walked though the car with my FIL and picked out about a dozen things that need light to moderate updates to really be driveable. I talked him into installing a power brake booster first thing and then talk about doing a front disk conv. If it still stops that bad. Starts and runs good though, I guess minus the valve cover leaks.

I had a windsor AC bracket laying around from my sanden compressor I bought for the 2+2 that I donated, so this will get AC and power steering if I can convince him.

Having a nice old car is fun but the 5 minute drive I took at his request to troubleshoot really convinced me I won't ever own anything with manual 4wheel drums!!

I'd own a 351W 67ish cougar though!!