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Old 10-04-2011, 08:05 PM
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I've got a 97 f250, I found a dana 60 out of a 95 f350... Same gear ratio as my truck... It comes with everything... Track bar and sway bar and all the brackets... Complete hub to hub... Any trucks or tips... Or heads up?
 
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Old 10-04-2011, 09:07 PM
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its pretty straight forward. the only trouble i had was getting the trac bar to line up. we had to build a drop bracket for it. i didnt worry about hooking up the swap bar.
 
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Old 10-05-2011, 06:57 PM
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when i did this on my 94, i had to drill for the sway bar brackets. it's really not hard at all. just a little time consuming.
 
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Old 10-10-2011, 03:10 PM
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Will I run into an problems with the drive shaft? I heard some people had to shorten theirs a couple inches....? If that was the case would it be safe for all the parts to be driven with out a front drive shaft, so I could get her down to the drive shaft shop
 
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Old 10-10-2011, 07:23 PM
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oh right. i forgot about that. the 250 just has a single u joint on each end. the 350 has a double knuckle deal on one end. it worked fine for me because i had a t case out of a one ton in it already. but to answere your question. yes. it won't hurt anything.
 
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Old 10-10-2011, 07:51 PM
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I never had that problem. But don't hook up the drive line and drive it you will be fine.
 
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Old 10-12-2011, 11:26 PM
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^ why didn't you have that problem did younger an ae from the same year or how did you go around the problem?

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Old 10-13-2011, 02:25 PM
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my pickup is a 95 the axle i used is from a 96.
 
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Old 10-13-2011, 06:47 PM
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there must be a difference between the 94 and 95 drive shafts then... my axle was from a 96 too.
 
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Old 10-13-2011, 07:44 PM
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also did a swap in my 85, put a 90 axle in it and the driveline went in just fine.
 
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