SpudZero
New Member
I have a dana 44 I just picked up and it's a bit of a mystery to me as to what it might have come from.
This is not my first d44, but it's my first d44 with "wedgies" as I generally always pass on these simply because I prefer the leaf spring versions from the F250's.
Now I do know that the wedges are for the ford radius arms, but it's my understanding that all bronco's and F100/ F150's were all 2.75 OD tube and varying wall thickness upto 1/2", only F250 had the larger 3"OD tubes.
Ok, so what I have is a 3" OD tube, 1/2" thick walls, with the radius arm wedges that are the cast type, not the two piece weld on type, and it has the full size 5 lug knuckles.... so not an F250 for sure.
The seller wasn't sure himself what it was from, but he thought it might have been 78/79 full size F150, is it possible Ford used 3" OD 1/2" tubes for some special reason? maybe a super cab?
If you can help me ID this one that would be great! The only numbers I can get off this one are 620072R from the bottom of the center section.
Thank you!
This is not my first d44, but it's my first d44 with "wedgies" as I generally always pass on these simply because I prefer the leaf spring versions from the F250's.
Now I do know that the wedges are for the ford radius arms, but it's my understanding that all bronco's and F100/ F150's were all 2.75 OD tube and varying wall thickness upto 1/2", only F250 had the larger 3"OD tubes.
Ok, so what I have is a 3" OD tube, 1/2" thick walls, with the radius arm wedges that are the cast type, not the two piece weld on type, and it has the full size 5 lug knuckles.... so not an F250 for sure.
The seller wasn't sure himself what it was from, but he thought it might have been 78/79 full size F150, is it possible Ford used 3" OD 1/2" tubes for some special reason? maybe a super cab?
If you can help me ID this one that would be great! The only numbers I can get off this one are 620072R from the bottom of the center section.
Thank you!