Need a little Axle ID help

[eXcali]

Front Axle, pretty sure it's a dana 30


Rear Axle, think it's a dana 44



This is on a 94 Jeep Grand. The rear axle is deffinately custom mod and not the original. The front has clean welds and is probably the original Dana 30. Searching by numbers on the rear axle have provided no deffinative proof. There is a item number on the plate, but Dana part look up says it could be used on the 44 or the 60.

 

[IZwack]

Front axle is most def not a 44 so its probably a 30 (its looks "short" in height to be a 44).

As for the rear axle (unless the owner spent mad money on aftermarket shafts), if it has less than 8 lugs, then its a 44 because a 60 is a 1-ton axle and therefore must have 8 lugs.

 

[eXcali]

Thanks IZwack, that's what I suspected. There was a 16y/o kid who owned it between me and the guy who modded it, so he didn't remember much of anything on it. The only thing he knew was that it had 4.56 gears because the numbers were sequential and easy to remember. In the next check or two I plan on tearing into the axles and hopefully finding that they have lockers. 2 years ago the guy who modded it was trying to sell it with lockers, so I hope he didn't pull them out.

 

[yellowford]

Stock the grand cherokee's had a d35 with the v6 and an aluminum housed d44 with the v8, I'm not sure if that helps you out at all.

And you can test to see if it is the AD44 by just using a magnet on the housing to see if it is the aluminum one that came stock.

 

[trj360]

v6

Blasphemy!!

 

[yellowford]

Blasphemy!!

It took awhile for someone to catch that I should have said I6 does that make you feel better.

 

[trj360]

It took awhile for someone to catch that I should have said I6 does that make you feel better.

Yes thank you