I have a complete 5.9V8 3500 4x4 sat getting rougher by the day, is there any information on here about fitting the rear axle and springs to my 2500 4x4, same year just 2500 is diesel.... 3500 is petrol would the springs be too stiff ?

3500 has snowplough option from the factory, I'm assuming this is front springs but is the front springs on the diesel stiffer ??

 

Is it easy to use both axles ? does the dually bit unbolt IE the extensions on the front and the wider deal on the back ? will the bigger rear brakes be too much for a 2500

 

I'm thinking about parting the 3500 so would keep all sheet metal except maybe the bed

so would keep

maybe engine and trans maybe for a job rated  I fancy doing if the 47re can be made to work without the trans ecm and use a smallblock intake and carb and ignition

transfer case for the 2500 if it's the same

both axles again for the 2500

 

but the question is more rear axle and springs, I did a search but there 300 odd pages

 

 

 

4 hours ago, dripley said:

Had a 96 V10. A lot of power and fun to drive.  But it and the petrol pumps had too close a relationship. She couldn't drive past them. Glad gas wasn't but a $1 a gallon back then.

Not many V10s here, that just might have something to do with petrol at over £6 a gallon. Saw a nice 3500 4x4 on ebay a few months ago but if I'd have bought that i'd be trailer living by now 

Wil,

 

Keep looking.  The diesel 2500 rams with manual transmissions got the Dana 80,  which would be your single rear wheel 3500.  The automatics got the Dana 70u, which is still not a terrible differential.     It can be hard to tell visually the difference as the rear cover looks very similar.  Look for the number 80 cast into the housing.

 

Hag

 

 

On 7/22/2019 at 1:04 PM, Haggar said:

Wil,

 

Keep looking.  The diesel 2500 rams with manual transmissions got the Dana 80,  which would be your single rear wheel 3500.  The automatics got the Dana 70u, which is still not a terrible differential.     It can be hard to tell visually the difference as the rear cover looks very similar.  Look for the number 80 cast into the housing.

 

Hag

 

 

Thanks... measurements are useful just to know what I'm looking for but again I may as well be on the moon for some of this stuff, none of these trucks get wrecked here and if they do it's such a small amount that you never get the chance to buy anything, I've saw one wrecked on ebay for parts in maybe 10 years or more and it was petrol and prices were way high, $200 just for a door card.

I think I've decided to fix my dually, it's 5.9 petrol but that may work in it's favour here in the future as this country/EU has a real downer on with diesel and it's classed as the scourge of the planet and of course every living thing on the planet is going to die the instance a diesel is started ESPECIALLY a huge American diesel........ eerr no, my 2500 cummins is 80% lower emissions than allowed by the EU for the year of my truck and my 3500 petrol doesn't even register on the tester.

So now the hunt is on for front door repair panels that  the shipping to the UK is less than the sheet metal

Dana is international company you could probably get a cross reference number or what they used in UK.   Then go junk yard or used shopping locally.  Have to make sure other stuff bolts up though. Just thinking on my part.  

 

When I was in Germany, I thought about vp44's that were used more on auto's over there but not here.  Opal bigger market over there compared to US for example.  

Yes it might be easier to replace VP here as more stuff uses it