Axle conundrum...swapped cover?

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Biernuts

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Coeur d'Alene, Idaho

• Oct 5, 2005

• #1

OK... So I'm trying to ID the rear axle on my 89 XJ.

It has 10 Bolts and the shape looks EXACTLY like the Dana 44 and nothing like the Dana 35 on Yuccaman's website. Even the plug looks like the 44...

So I pull all the numbers off of my rear:

Tag info says:
63003516
08 605323

Diff cover stamp says:
Dana
42968
268 8
Rev. N
11/1/1987

Lower left housing stamp:
8307

Upper right housing stamp:
35C

So I assume it's a 35 but looks just like a 44?

 

Yucca-Man

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Castle Rock, CO

• Oct 5, 2005

• #2

The covers are not interchangeable between the D35 and D44. Axle built in 1987; I don't have the BOM link here but I'd say we need pics.

 

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Bounty Hunter

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Southern Illinois

• Oct 5, 2005

• #3

Sounds like a D35 to me.

 

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XgeekstarX

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winter springs, florida

• Oct 5, 2005

• #4

if it has a screw in plug, then it's a 44. the 35's have the rubber plug. also the 44 has a "hexagon" shape to the cover, the 35 is more round.

 

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Biernuts

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Coeur d'Alene, Idaho

• Oct 5, 2005

• #5

It's got a screw in plug and the bolt pattern/shape and cover looks JUST LIKE the 44...physically the entire thing LOOKS like a 44.

But the top right side of the housing is stamped 35C & the tag is stamped 63003516
08 605323


605323 is a Dana 35 BOM....

I will try to borrow a dig camera and take pics.

 

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Bounty Hunter

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Southern Illinois

• Oct 5, 2005

• #6

XgeekstarX said:

if it has a screw in plug, then it's a 44. the 35's have the rubber plug.

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Not so, early D35's have the screw in plug, later model 35's have the rubber plug. I put an older cover on my 35 to get rid of the rubber plug in favor of the magnet plug.

Guess a pic will tell.

Anybody know the axletube diameter between the two?

 

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Biernuts

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Coeur d'Alene, Idaho

• Oct 5, 2005

• #7

Thanks BH....

Me'thinks that the 35C stamp the top right angle on the housing and the BOM# make's it a 35...but with the sorta 10 bolt hex shape instead of the oval...

 

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Bounty Hunter

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Southern Illinois

• Oct 5, 2005

• #8

The 35 isn't a perfect oval, not like the AMC20. I'd say it's between the 20 and 44 as far as shape. I've never seen a 44 with 35c stamped in the web. Where's that pic?

 

Eagle

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Terra Firma

• Oct 5, 2005

• #9

XgeekstarX said:

if it has a screw in plug, then it's a 44. the 35's have the rubber plug. also the 44 has a "hexagon" shape to the cover, the 35 is more round.

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Nope.

The old non c-clip D35s have threaded plugs. The newer c-clip versions have the rubber plug.