Ahh.. That gives me some added insight. I'll have my wife look up the part
numbers on the axles themselves monday at work. She works in parts ( I work
in sales). IF by chance the axles may be the same. I may have just had the
weak link fixed in there. Then the next step would be upgrading the motor
mounts to keep from tearign them loose. That made a major traction
difference the few times I've started to get onto it.
Aaron Wyse
----- Original Message -----
From: "Azie L. Magnusson" <maggie11@mchsi.com>
To: <dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net>
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 9:52 AM
Subject: DML: Axles strength
>
>
>
> Aaron W. writes: >>My question is: How strong are the
> axles in the 7.25 rear?? <<
>
> Vehicles I've owned with the 7.25 are listed below.
> My experience is with the '87 Diplomat with 318 and my '79
> Aspen R/T with 318 and an '89 Dak with 3.9L.. No axle
> problems ever... Now spiders and spools are a different
> matter.. I've riped all 3 apart @ different times with what
> I consider to be relatively low mileage. The '79 Aspen R/T
> came apart @ less than 50K miles. The '87 diplomat came
> apart @ just over 50K miles. The '89 Dak with the 3.9L(and
> a very weak 3.9L in my opinion) came apart @ just under
> 40K miles. None of the above vehicles were severly
> mistreated.. My opinion of the 7.25 rear is that it wouldn't
> hold up in a good lawnmower. Should have never been put
> in a road worthy vehicle. The axles are the same size as
> those in the 8.25 I believe. May be wrong. IMO the
> axles are much stronger than the center section.
>
> "One of the hardest things in life to learn is
> which bridge to cross and which bridge to burn"
>
> Azie
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