I'm am in the process of building my HP 60 rear, and I was planning on using the axles and spindles off a a 10.25 sterling (I got a few of them laying around. So today I take one apart 1.5" (1.495") 35 spline axle, cool I thought it would work, mic'd the dana 60 1.495" 35 spline, same size. I try to put a 10.25 axle in the 60 carrier, won't fit. I pull the spiders off the 10.25 and the 60 shafts fit it (there is a tiny bit of play, very minute). So it appears as my plans have changed, I can't use the 10.25 parts with the 60 without getting custom axles made.

Has any one heard of this before a 1.5" 35 spline axle not fitting in a different carrier, still a 1.5 and 35 spline.

This would have been sweet to build, the 10.25 uses o-ring instead of a gasket to seal the shafts.

If no one has any suggestion, it's off to find a d 70 for parts.

Craig

I read a post somewhere else about this kind of thing. It has something to do with the pitch and depth of the splines. Hope this helps.

couldnt you use 70 shafts with the sterling spindals and hubs?

Originally posted by NE-RokToy
couldnt you use 70 shafts with the sterling spindals and hubs?


I'll have to look into this, what all was the 70 used in??

I Have a 1ton dodge van mid eightys, I havent looked at the rear axle, YET

Craig

that probably has a 60

Ron

Just take the spiders out and pound the axles into them, remove, rotate a few splines then redo this process, in essence re-broaching the spiders and fitting the axles to them. just make sure to use a brass drift so as not to damage anything. Many resplines ago, I resplined a set of axles test fitting them to 30 spline 60 spiders only to find out the 30 spline 44 spiders had a different pitch angle. It was only for my rig, so I went for it with the above mentioned process. It worked out fine!! I would have re-cut them to the correct angle if they weren't for me.

if you have an abundance of 10.25 why dont you just use one of them?

Pressure angle is 5 degrees different. The 60 has a steeper angle, so will fit inside the (wider angle) sterling carrier. And, as you can see, vise versa won't work. I would run the complete 10.25/10.5 sterling, they are a bitchen rear, a little more clearance than a 60, and you can get down to 5.13s for them. Very strong too...

you can get 5.38 for the 10.25 from randys and 7.17s for the 10.25 from the ford dealer. i know randys was working on the 5.13 didnt kknow they were out yet.

Originally posted by Gozuki
Pressure angle is 5 degrees different. The 60 has a steeper angle, so will fit inside the (wider angle) sterling carrier. And, as you can see, vise versa won't work. I would run the complete 10.25/10.5 sterling, they are a bitchen rear, a little more clearance than a 60, and you can get down to 5.13s for them. Very strong too...

I need the high pinion of the d60 and the 10.25 have a long pinion, hence a shorter rear drive shaft, and have a low pinion.

Craig