I think the thing of beauty will really show when decked out in this functional diff cover and of coarse some fresh chassis black paint.
I really need to Clean the Bore of this cannon of an axle. QUOTE]
Rick you crack me up, I can just visualize you with a supersized 5 gal. jar of Hoppe's #9 and a 105 mm bronze bore brush, sitting on a "Jerry can" swabbing away with the Gunny standing over you... steady chewing on you butt! Ah times are good!
Solid is my favorite cover for strength & appearence... since you moved the tank and can really see that D70 from afar.
Had it been one of those German Bores I'd be using 88mm brush
And Please, under no circumstance attempt to do what you see here...for I'm what you call a trained professional ROTFLMAO
After reading so much BS on all the sites were the guys have a high level of Testosterone and where the only skills you have is judged by the amount of
Trash Talk you can post.
I decided to do as I usually do... Just stare into the clouds of my morning cup of coffee and come up with another "Out of the Box" way of shortening the Dana 70 axle.
Plus more importantly I can look into the dark inside secret of how these spindles are made in a more or less one piece non-removable spindle.
None the less I did remove it and saw a rather non symmetrical but rather a convoluted inside with various contoured wall thicknesses and what appeared to be one of the different ways of making this fine piece of hardware...Friction welding. Now i know how they got the welding rod or should I say lack of welding rod through the end of the spindle. It is nothing like you might imagine of press fit sleeve into the axle and welding.
And even maybe some swagging of the tube.
No this is not the final cut to length of the axle but I just need to cut this thing off and check it out but from inside to out.
Then the fun part of trying to figure out how to fit this on the main shortened tube that has a different out side dia. It"about an 1/8" at the spindle end. This was due to the machining of the outside and more importantly...super strong and with as little as possible of my monthly retirement check, now that's the real hard part.
It's this "Cart in front of the Horse" attitude that makes me have to get it done or will it become nothing but a good boat anchor ha ha.
The cut off spindle will under go a substantial amount of modifications...If it all goes as planned, and we all know how that can goes.
Plus I should be able to make it removable just in case I ever damage and have to replace spindle. I don't like the idea of replacing the whole tube or complete axle just cause the spindle gets damaged. Plus all the work that will be on the tube like links, shocks and such.
Remember, these spindles are non removable from Dana. But we will see.