Sal's K2500 Dana 60 Solid Axle Swap

strikk said:

Sealing things up before any rain comes through.

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strikk said:

Working on the engine harness these past two nights. I am removing every unessecary gmt400 engine circuit, only keeping creature comforts and basic sensors.

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strikk said:

I decided to swap in a gmt800 2005 chevy 11.5" 14bolt out of duramax. The benfits for me were: I got to keep the same 8x6.5" lug pattern, get a heavier duty full float axle, gain disc brakes, and a factory parking brake, I got the gear ratio I wanted, 3.73, already on the axle, it had a factory limited slip in it.

The axle was $100, I had to cut off the perches and weld on fresh ones, $30 from RuffStuff. My old axle needed a brake refresh so I figure that cost was not part of the conversion. I will need to figure out the proper ujoin conversion once I get a driveshaft made and will fumble around with getting the parking brake cables to adapt to the older gmt400 pedal.

Having done this, the main reason for me was for disk brakes. I would not spend the multi hundred dollars for a disk brake conversion on the older axle when you can swap in a newer axle for less.

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strikk said:

The radiator was put together with a bunch of random coolant hose. Lower is 1.5” out of the block to 1.5” big block Chevy radiator, Cummins top port is 1.75” necked down to 1.5” with a coolant filter for now. I’m not sure what’s going to come out of the block so I’d like to try to keep the new radiator clean

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pgutier1 said:

This might be a stupid question...here it goes. On my rig, the roof is notorious for rust. I sanded it down to bare metal and then primed the whole roof and the rust came back, lol!. Would your proccess work well with the roof? I plan to paint the whole truck with a bed liner...

These parts look amazing!

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pgutier1 said:

Can you please explain a little more on this. Are you speaking about the NBS 11.5 FF? Don't these only come on the 2000's and up? I also want a NBS 11.5 FF so get one from a van because it has a wider track?

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pgutier1 said:

What kind of epoxy did you use on the roof? Is this a better way to prep a roof than POR15?

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pgutier1 said:

Why not just flush out the block?

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BNielsen said:

My K3500 has a two piece driveshaft, crew cab long bed.
I'd assume an ECLB would also have a two piece,

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BNielsen said:

My K3500 has a two piece driveshaft, crew cab long bed.
I'd assume an ECLB would also have a two piece,

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