reptillikus
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I know weve got a thread on the SD D60s, but i dont have one of those, i have a modified 79 Ford D60 under my truck. Up on jackstands right now in pieces, its time to do some maintenance/upgrades.
I was looking at bronze kingpin bushings. Pricing seems to be all over the place, with RuffStuff @ $90, Branik @ $95, Ballistic @ $100, TMR @ $130, NWF @ $149, ECGS @ $159, etc etc. I cant see much of a difference in them, so not sure why the price is all over the place like that. Opinions?
Id like to run them in conjunction with the springless bushing kit from Crane
https://craneaxle.com/dana-60-king-pin-spring-eliminator.html
Im not running hi-steer arms and dont plan to, so theyll be going under the stock caps.
All my bearings & kingpins are in good shape, so i only need seals.
upper kingpin seal, Spicer 620058
lower kingpin seal, Spicer 41777
for the spindle seal i was going to use the Spicer 708084 kit, which is the updated '2 seal' version for the 92-97 Ford axles, as im pretty sure this will fit the 79 D60. Comes with spindle bearing.
https://www.summitracing.com/parts/sdh-708084
The hub seal should be the same as pretty much every other D60 out there, National p/n NS 415960
Also planning on yukon locking hubs to replace my 35 spline spicers that never lock/unlock properly.
I seem to recall back in the early days of the Yukon hubs that people ran into issues with getting the dials to turn but it seems thats been resolved by now. I think my primary concern is, ive heard of people having issues running the bronze kingpin bushings with the spring eliminators, so i was looking to see if anyone here has run them, and if so did you run into any issues?
I was looking at bronze kingpin bushings. Pricing seems to be all over the place, with RuffStuff @ $90, Branik @ $95, Ballistic @ $100, TMR @ $130, NWF @ $149, ECGS @ $159, etc etc. I cant see much of a difference in them, so not sure why the price is all over the place like that. Opinions?
Id like to run them in conjunction with the springless bushing kit from Crane
https://craneaxle.com/dana-60-king-pin-spring-eliminator.html
Im not running hi-steer arms and dont plan to, so theyll be going under the stock caps.
All my bearings & kingpins are in good shape, so i only need seals.
upper kingpin seal, Spicer 620058
lower kingpin seal, Spicer 41777
for the spindle seal i was going to use the Spicer 708084 kit, which is the updated '2 seal' version for the 92-97 Ford axles, as im pretty sure this will fit the 79 D60. Comes with spindle bearing.
https://www.summitracing.com/parts/sdh-708084
The hub seal should be the same as pretty much every other D60 out there, National p/n NS 415960
Also planning on yukon locking hubs to replace my 35 spline spicers that never lock/unlock properly.
I seem to recall back in the early days of the Yukon hubs that people ran into issues with getting the dials to turn but it seems thats been resolved by now. I think my primary concern is, ive heard of people having issues running the bronze kingpin bushings with the spring eliminators, so i was looking to see if anyone here has run them, and if so did you run into any issues?