[ChiScouter]

Down the road I plan on building a front hybred. I am slowly collecting parts and want to build the axle on the cheap. I already parted out a Dodge dually 60 saving the tie rod, end forgings, and outer knuckles for myself and selling the rest. The dodge had external drive flanges. I dragged home a Chevy dually on Saturday to sell whole, or part out. The end forgings on the dodge are a lot beefier than the ones on the Chevy. Because of my weight concerns I am thinking about keeping the Chev end forgings and sell off the dodge ones. I have read Bills bible and read every 60 thread I have seen here and can't remember hearing anything about broken end forgings. Should I use the Chevs and save a few pounds?

 

[krcruiser]

my personal opinion is no don't save weight here. I personally do not care trail spares. I believe some after market vendor is working on a forging for the inners and they are making the Beef version.

Heres a question for you, if you happen to be the one case where an inner knuckle gets broken and it is your lighter weight chevies, is that going to piss you off?

 

[kwrangln]

Camo threw a couple gussets on his, search for the camo 60 buildup thread for some pics and discussion on it.

 

[GearMan]

have bent the shit out of the inners but not broken one and i just got a set of CRANES new inner Cs and they are the beef but i will still gusset them to help to keep from bending them

 

[3/4tonYJ]

i've have some standard and heavy inner "C"s myself, and the difference is alot. i'm using the heavy ones on my current 60 project....... the area around the upper kingpin on standard knuckles just looks small after having some of the large forgings.......more is better