I was talking Jeeps with a couple of firends last night when one of them told me his dad scored a couple of Zamboni axles for another buddy's Jeep, Dana 60 full floater rear, 51" wide, and matching width 8 lug Dana 44 front, with no cast in spring pad and a snapped off pinion. They've got like 7.17 gears, so I'd bet the Dana 44 pinion was tiny, but I still can't image pulling a four wheel burnout in a Zamboni. Anyway, his buddy is regearing the front 44 for his early CJ and gearing his offset 44 rear to match, the 60 will be saved for future projects, I just though you guys would get a kick out of using Zamboni axles on a Jeep.

I've always eyed those axles and wondered exactly what they were. Interesting.

Just a tad narrow.
Funny to say you have Zamboni axles though. :D

There has been posts on this before. Zambonis are beefy:D Tough to nab those axles because Zambonis command a high price, even used, and are in high demand around here.

Yeah, way narrow, but super cool for a stock looking flatty or narrow trac CJ, and it just so happens that my buddy's got a connection for them through his dad, the two he got were free because the front was broke (still wonder how a pinion got snapped on a Zamboni) but others may be available at reasonable cost. And yes, it would be kick ass to answer "what kinda axemals you got under that there Jeep?" with "Zambo-reennie axles!"

I think that they'd be perfect under a jeep:flipoff2:
http://www.film.queensu.ca/cj3b/Photos/Finds/Zamboni/ZamboniModelE.jpg

Do I spy flat-fenders? :confused: :flipoff2:

Originally posted by JS-Economos
Do I spy flat-fenders? :confused: :flipoff2:
that's a cj3b;)

Yeah, and that's about the best looking thing you can do with one of those tall hooded pregnant flatties, almost the ugliest Jeep ever built, rigth behind the last couple years of the Jeepster Commando. Just kiddin, High Hooder

So how many more axles can he get a hold of and what are the cost? I need to swap out my stock axles in my '47 and I want to stay narrow...Let me know.

Kevin

If you can take a shot of that 7.17 44 gear set because I think we would all like to see that.
I just set up some 44's with 5.89's going in a Zuki and that pinion was small. 5.89 is the lowest set offered that I know of for a 44.

Yep 5.89 is the lowest offered for a standard cut 44 but the RC is only 5.38 (I am sure you knew that 66CJDean):D:D:D I had 5.89 in the front of my 4 banger wrangler...it worked great for me but I only ran them once before swapping those axles out:p

Yep you may have guessed it but guess again who had the first Zamboni production runs? One of the specs MIGHT have been 4wd, ya think???
NEVER knew they came with those beefy axles and such low gears though, but I guess it makes sense with the ice and all.
I am willing to bet that Zambonies have not come much further since then. Don't really know though.

I also wondered about the super low ratio, as far as I know, 5.89 is the lowest ratio for a 44, but he said the front housing didn't have any cast in pads, and was more centered than normal, assumingthat it had been bilt from a 44 rear, but I wonder if it isn't a Dana 44 at all......I'll ask him and get back with you all and try to get a pic of the 7.17 pinion, if he got it with the axles, it was snapped off.

Yep

The first "Zamboni" was built on a Jeep.

Originally posted by HighHooder
I think that they'd be perfect under a jeep:flipoff2:
http://www.film.queensu.ca/cj3b/Photos/Finds/Zamboni/ZamboniModelE.jpg