DaveB
Long Jeep Fan
- Location
- Holladay, Utah
My son has put in a semi float dana 60 into his comanche and we discovered an issue when we installed the axle shafts. The axle came from an old F100 Ford truck that had a powerlock posi in it. It turns out that the powerlock has two axle buttons in the spider gears that push out on the axle shafts. The axle end play is set on these by adding shims to the back of the backing plate. The buttons in the spiders push out and the shims set the play. Now that the power lock isn't there the buttons no longer push the axle out so there is too much end play on the axle shafts. I can see how we could add shims behind the wheel bearings to move the axle out but they would need to be custom built. It might be possible to use newer wheel bearings and seals to make it more like one of the newer axles but I haven't looked into that yet. I'm sure someone on here has run into this issue before, so how did you fix it ?????