What Axle

[w_howey]

couldnt you tap the hole and put in a metal plug? is there enough metal for the threads?

I could get a bung and weld it in, and use a plug then. But the cover itself doesn't have enough material to just cut threads into. At that point its just as easy to get an aftermarket cover that is thicker to begin with.

 

[Yucca-Man]

using that chart, the d35 and chrysler 8.25 look the same. the novice would have a real hard time determining the correct axle with that chart.

That's why real pics are better in this case, and far better than twenty paragraphs of keyboard spewage.

The Dana logo helps ID it, but then again under an '89 you'll have either a D35 or a D44 (although that's mighty rare.)

Pics: http://www.yuccaman.com/jeep/history.html#axles

D35 (c-clip, with the rubber fill plug)

C8.25 (also c-clip. This one happens to be a 27-spline...you can't tell from the outside)

D44