my question is i have a 2002 ford excursion. I also have 2 axles from a 1979 ford high boy in excellent condition. I believe the excursion is using a dana 50 on the front and a dana 60 on the rear. both are ball joint axles. I want to swap the front and rear axles I have on hand are both king pin high pinion reverse cut gears on them. I want to do axle swap on my excursion. How adaptable are these axles in a swap and can most of the parts swap such as the hubs and rotors?
Help me out on this please
2006-12-22 08:10:58 · 2 answers · asked by miller4000 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Car Makes ➔ Ford
thaqts pretty interesting? I know the 78 to 79 axles are as tough as nails. might have to do some tweaking to get everything together. It could be done it is just going to take some time?
2006-12-22 13:52:04 · update #1
cool. Well its clear the excursion has its problems. for one thing they adapted its suspension for soccer moms but it is a great rig with a minor amount of changes to bring it inline with a ford f350. basic springs set up and shocks. I will change em out because I do a lot of hard driving over roads that most poeple would dare drive on. I know the excursion uses some pretty stout axles but the real problem is because they are ball joint axles and compared to a set of front and rear dana 60 high pinion axles out of a 78 or 79 they arent much to speak of. Dana 70 is junk to be honest. I guess they said they were modifying the suspension also because they wanted to keep the excursion under 7 ft due to drive throughs used by soccer moms and basic suburbanites needing to go through these things..and also the garage door thing. Personally i keep my truck right now in a pole barn so this is no worry to me.
2006-12-22 14:02:01 · update #2
The front end of your excursion should be a Dana 60 (I think Ford stopped using D50's in the 01 model year) and the rear end is a Ford 10.25 (Equivalent of a D70/14 bolt) Those axles will swap in just fine under your excursion. You WILL need new wheels/tires all the trucks after 98 have different bolt patterns even the 8 lug is different but personally I wouldn't waste my time doing it. NOTHING is swappable between these 2 sets of axles. BTW.
2006-12-22 13:54:28 · answer #1 · answered by Keith C 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure , but I know the 79 is SAE threads and the 02 is metric. I bought a set of 16" rims to put on a 76 f250 and found that the bolt pattern on the 96? and up is a smaller metric pattern as with the lugs and nuts.
2006-12-22 16:52:30 · answer #2 · answered by 1diputs 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋