Competition Will I snap my Dana 60 with a locker?

[Smokin Ram]

I am looking into a dana 60 arb locker for the front of my 2500. ive had a dana 70 locker in the rear before i broke the crown and pinion, sheared it right off. I went to a 2001 dana 80. I trust the arb name, and want the functionability. What i need to know is what am i lookng at for grenadability... is my 60 gonna bind and snap... is it gonna work great, what have your fella's broke, whats your experience with a 60 locker in the front? I do serious truck pulling im pushing 600 plus horsepower and over a 1000 ftlbs of torque, at last check. The truck is being further boosted in hp in march/april before the pulling season starts and im tired of only 3 wheels spinning, that is, the front right tends to stop. Please help i need to know my options and what could really and honestly happen. Thanks in advance

 

[PSU-CE]

If it's a serious pulling truck, eliminate all your problems: go with a Detroit and slide the CAD collar over and weld it. If you still drive it on the road then the ARB or the Eaton E-locker (depending on your gears) would be the way to go. I personally don't care for the ARB set-up, and I haven't seen an E-locker set up yet.

 

[pwerwagn]

I personally prefer the OX locker over the eaton, arb or the new detroit electric.

I would venture to say that your 60 should hold. It is probably on the edge with that much hp, but I bet it would hold. I have seen one CAD sleeve break, and a few shafts break, but the ring/pinion/carrier seem to be pretty stout.



--Jeff

 

[willysrule]

I've see and head of quite a few of front D60's bite the dust with big rubber (38"s and up) steep gears, lockers and some HP's... many rock crawlers run 60's and some constantly break them... on the stock D60's they either break because of U-joint failure or they twist off or snap right behind the splines at the carrier...



running 315's your not hardly threatening those axles but with the high numbers (HP and FT LBS) that your throwing at them I would worry a little... . but if it breaks the nice thing is that there is high strength alloy axles and components that are made for the D60, it's a popular axle to run for rock crawlers... they just cost some coin...

 

[JoshPeters]

I don't think I'd worry to much..... from what I remember... Haisleys Rock Hard Ram is running a Military rear axle, but the D60 front.



(that's what I remember for some reason at TiM 04)



Josh

 

[zstroken]

Yea they are running about $3000 worth of specialty stuff in the Dana 60, as well as some $300 u joints

 

[DieselTweaker]

if you wanna play,,,,, you gotta pay

 

[Diesel Darryl]

I ran a ARB in my 60 running twins, large injectors and alot of pump work with no problems. I am still running a 60 with ARB and custom axles and big $ wheel joints. It is holding up so far with 700lbs 60" in front of the axle, 18x34 Pit Bull tires and enough power to spin them all the way down the pulling track. It is a stout axle!

Darryl