2nd Gen Non-Engine/Transmission Rear Axle feels like it has a locker?

[IWeiny]

So while I was doing my brakes I had the whole rear axle off the ground. Now I don't have a lot of experience with limited slip rear ends but I know for sure that with an open diff if you turn one wheel the other wheel on the axle will turn in the oposite direction. When I had the rear axle up I could not turn the wheels of the truck at all!



This is a Dana 70 in a 2500 auto 1999. Could there be something wrong with the diff? Could the limited slip cause this type of behavior. When I tried to turn the wheels the drive shaft was trying to turn. Oh and no the park brake was not set, I had the drums off in fact.



Thanks,

Ira

 

[Shovelhead]

If the driveshaft was trying to turn and the transmission was in park, you wouldn't be able to turn the wheels.

 

[Mtngoat]

Like shovelhead says... IF you have any kind of locking diff, both wheels will turn the same way, Non locking they will spin in opposite directions.



Robin