Who can narrow an axle housing?

Chevycrew

Chevycrew

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Just looking for options.

I need one side of a dana 60 front axle housing cut down 5"


Who can do it? Whats the going rate?


Thanks!
 
You can do it, that way it's free aside from the shaft resplining. :) James K did a little writeup a while back, you should search it and see if it's easy enough for you to consider.
 
I found enough, should be easy enough.

Im thinking manual pipe cutter, clean cut with no shavings inside.

Then remove chunk of tube from the C.

Set C in place, and weld it up. Ill use the 480 mig at work, should burn in well enough.
 
I wouldn't worry about shavings inside the axle tube, it's not sealed in any way from sand/dirt/water/anything else, plus it's easy enough to clean out if you care. I don't know how a pipe cutter would deal with 1/2" wall thickness, either. :eek2:

In the end though, it doesn't really matter how you cut it, as long as it gets cut. :D
 
Yeah I was thinking about that. Stuff in a rag and chop it.

Seeing how the C is a press fit on the tube. The straightness of the cut really doesnt matter. Chop the tube, pound on the C, and weld it up.
 
Chevycrew said:
Yeah I was thinking about that. Stuff in a rag and chop it.

Seeing how the C is a press fit on the tube. The straightness of the cut really doesnt matter. Chop the tube, pound on the C, and weld it up.
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Just make sure you get your caster matched to the other side before you get the knuckle on too far... Other than that, it really is a simple deal.
 
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