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So had to pull the diff out to get my passenger axleshaft out is the c clip necessary on passenger axleshaft inside the diff or is that for just in case you loose the u joint between the 2 pieces so the stub shaft stay in the housing and keeps the oil in the housing
 


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It’s needed because there’s a slip joint in the axle. Without something to hold it there would be 2 moving joints and the shaft could fall out.
Some people put a spring inside the slip joint on the axle and leave the c clip out of the diff. The spring holds the shaft in place enough so it can’t fall out.
 

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The c clip is necessary. The u-joint isn't designed to take a load the c-clip takes care of and it keeps the axle where is needs to be in placement for proper sealing and load bearing on the splines.
 

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It’s needed because there’s a slip joint in the axle. Without something to hold it there would be 2 moving joints and the shaft could fall out.
Some people put a spring inside the slip joint on the axle and leave the c clip out of the diff. The spring holds the shaft in place enough so it can’t fall out.
Ok thank you answers my question debating on putting the Dana 28 back together or just following through with a straight axle swap
 

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The spring mod works just fine. And it makes it much easier to do repairs where the shaft needs to come out.
 

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Ok thank you answers my question debating on putting the Dana 28 back together or just following through with a straight axle swap
So what are you going to do? You can’t just say something like that without letting us know the plan. You need to hurry up and decide.
 

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So what are you going to do? You can’t just say something like that without letting us know the plan. You need to hurry up and decide.
Well my plan is to go full size this spring but I need to rebuild the axles I have and get lower gears installed I pulled the pas axle shaft out to replace the outer ujoint but after having it tore down this far was thinking I might as well pull the rest of the ttb out and just throw in a Dana 30 in for the time being
 

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Going from a 28 to 30 isn't a huge jump in strength if you are just going to go 44 or bigger later... going to a Dana 35 is less work but don't make more work for yourself...

I just put a weedeater head spring inside the boot in the passenger side shafts, the hose clamp on the small side keeps the spring in, super simple and has lived for 10 years without any hiccups. Honestly I've lost track of my spare axle shafts for my D35, they're in my in bed toolbox that's shoved in a corner but need to be cleaned up at this point, I used to expect them to explode but apparently I'm not hard enough on things or my 8:1 turbo motor doesn't have enough torque until it doesn't matter anymore...
 

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Yeah I havent 100 percent figured it out I'll probably end up with the Dana 28 for the rest of winter I have the 2.9 v6 and it lives on the limiter I've never snapped a shaft yet this is my second Dana 28 in 2 different trucks I was gonna do the dana 35 ttb swap but had to sell my explorer to make some cash unfortunately...I was also thinking about welding the front up but keep in mind I'm only running 32x9.50 super swampers figure it might work for a while as long as I keep it from wheel hopping to bad
 

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Cheap posi for the front pumpkin and less likely to explode;
Add one or 2 side gear shims to the stock ones. As many as you can make fit. It will make it act like a limited slip. Worked great on my snow wheeling rig.
 

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Ill keep the shim idea in mind...Yeah that's all this truck is doing is snow or straight line muddrag I got 1st in the small tire class which was 35s and under although there was only myself and 3 other competitors lol
 

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