Stock Dana 60 Front Axle Lenghts Driver Side Traction
Stock Dana 60 Front Axle Lenghts Manual Transmission Equipped

The ring gear in the Salisbury uses slightly larger mounting bolts and the pinion shaft is a different diameter than the common version.

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The Dana 44 was first manufactured in the 1940s and is still being manufactured today, both front and rear axle variants.

Over a dozen automobile manufacturers have made vehicles that have Dana 44 axles, including Jeep which currently manufactures four-wheel drive vehicles that have both front and rear Dana 44 axles.

Dana 44 Front axles were known for utilizing locking hubs or a center axle disconnect system.

The Dana 44 has seen use in 14-, 12-, 34-, and 1-ton rated trucks.

The Dana 44 was manufactured in kingpin and ball joint variations, as well as closed and open knuckle variations.

In the 1980s and 1990s, Ford used a form of IFS known as Twin Traction Beam (TTB).

Stock Dana 60 Front Axle Lenghts Driver Side Traction

This Dana 44 had no axle tubes but attached to the driver side traction beam, which also acted as a cover plate, and had open air axles which traveled through the beams to the spindles.

The axles had u-joints to allow for the independent action of the beams.

Individual pivot points for the beams at greater than center made each beam longer than half the overall width crossing in the middle.

The TTB set-up is based on Fords highly successful Twin I-beam design on two-wheel-drive pick-up truck models.

The ring gear on the Dana 41 is nearly one inch smaller than a Dana 44.

The Dana 44 has a GAWR up to 3,500 lb (1,600 kg) and is a semi-floating type, having one bearing on the end of the axle shaft which carries the weight of the vehicle on the axle and also allows axle rotation.

This ring and pinion is significantly stronger with a better pinion to ring gear tooth contact patch and angle.

It was typically used in the back of jeep JKs, Isuzus and Nissan pickups.

This ring and pinion does share some components and can be adapted into an earlier Dana 44 but requires some work, different bearings and spacers.

The benefit is the larger ring gear, better angle cut on the teeth and Dana 60 diameter pinion shaft.

Since the Dana 45 is no longer being made you can use the Dana 44 gears in the Dana 45 housing if you use model 53 pinion bearings and plenty of shims.

Stock Dana 60 Front Axle Lenghts Manual Transmission Equipped

All 19801982 Chevrolet Corvette C3 and manual transmission equipped 19851996 Chevrolet Corvette C4 had this axle.

The 200506 Pontiac GTO, The Dodge Viper has always used a Dana 44 IRS setup.

The majority of Corvette and Viper Dana 44 IRS set ups use a limited slip differential.

There are some differences in the Jaguar Dana 44, produced by Birfield (later GKN) subsidiary Salisbury Transmission as the Salisbury 4HU and 15HU.