GSLSE21B
Well-Known Member
Exactly why I had dana60/14bolt within 1000 miles of new ..I have RCV axles in the front. They are good to 43s. That just means the weak spot was moved to the axle housing. Sure you can gusset the stock axles. By the time you re-gear the axle, gusset the axle, put hd ball joints in the axle and put axle shafts in the axle, you might as well put one tons on it.
HD Ball Joints. = $629 + install
RCV axle =. $1399 + install
Re-gear =. $1000 installed
Gusset = $400. + install
with labor to do the work, you are so close to one ton axles that you might as well buy one ton axles. Sure some of us can do the labor, but I am thinking most can't. I am pretty good with a set of tool and can weld, but I would still pay someone to do the gears, and weld the gussets on the axle.
If you have the money to upgrade and axle all the way so that you can wheel 40s, what is another grand or so to do it right. Pull the stock axle off and sell them and then you are the same money as as if you just bought one tons.
I look back at my progression with my axles, and wish I would have just pulled the trigger. But I replaced things as they broke or wore out. So here I sit with Dana 44 axles that have been upgraded and sure they should be okay, but hey for just about the same money at the end of the day, I could have had one tons and done it right.
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