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View Poll Results: AAM axle swap on a 2nd Gen
Sounds like a good idea! 41 60.29%
Don't do it, not as good of an axle. 19 27.94%
Not quite sure. 8 11.76%
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AAM axle, Should I, or Shouldnt I?
Old 05-02-2006, 12:39 PM   #1 (permalink)
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AAM axle, Should I, or Shouldnt I?

I recently purchased a set of AAM axles out of a 2003 Ram CTD 4x4 2500 QC. The truck came with an auto tranny. Should I, or Shouldnt I look at putting these under my 2000 Dodge Ram? I have conflicting opinions on this. Some say go for it, that they are good axles, others say, they are junk, dont bother. I have a hard time believing they are complete junk if Dodge ditched Dana for them. Anyway, couple reasons I am thinking about doing this are...

1.)D80 rear needs new bearings, pinion bearing and seals (blew up the spiders a year ago, and only replaced the gears, didnt have the $$$ for bearings and seals at the time, so it has gotten a little worse)
2.)D80 rear needs new brake shoes (AAM axle has disk brakes, in good condition)
3.)D60F needs hub assemblies, ball joints, axle seals, and I dont know if its the hubs, but has a nasty vibration in 4wheel drive under acceleration, plus, I found a crap load of water in the oil last oil change (hasnt been drivin in water even close to that deep??)
4.)AAM axles have good brakes on them. Have 3:73 gear ratios which I like better than the 3:55 I have now since I run 35" tires usually, and I didnt want to go to the 3:92 or 4:10 ratios for the D80, especially for how expensive the gear sets are! Axles only have 27k miles on them, compaired to my 124k on my stockers.
5.)For the most part, complete bolt in part, only thing I may have to play with is getting the rear disk brakes figured out.


So, what do you third gen guys think? Should I do it? are you happy with your axles so far?
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