dana 28 front axle shafts

[Gary Roda]

does anyone know were i can buy a complete axle shaft with the ujoints assembled i thought just getting new would be better and easier than trying to rebuild the rusted shafts i have...thanks...Gary

 

[raggedyann]

try carparts.com. this will link u to different savage yards

 

[AzLizard]

What year?
I have a 85 I pulled not long ago.

 

[Gary Roda]

What year?
I have a 85 I pulled not long ago.

its a 97 4wd

 

[AzLizard]

its a 97 4wd

Check for sure,but I'm thinking they're not the same.

 

[4x4junkie]

A '97 would have what is often known as the Dana28/35 "hybrid" axle (it's mostly a D35, but has D28 guts inside the diff housing). Officially it is called a D28 though.

The inner axle shafts are unique to that axle, which was used from 1993-1997. Your only option will be to get junkyard shafts and put new u-joints in them if needed (or if yours just need u-joints, then easiest to just replace them. Rust on the shafts usually doesn't hurt anything unless it's gotten into the slip-yoke spline).

The other option would be to replace your diff with one from a real D35. D35 shafts are somewhat easier to come by (Bronco Graveyard I know sells at least some of the shaft components, they may have preassembled ones too, though I haven't checked).

 

[AllanD]

a True Dana35 has the benefits of larger inner shafts, though the U-joints, wheel-bearings, stub shafts and locking hubs.

I'm in the process of gathering parts to swap a dana35 into my uncle's old Ranger,
an '87 STX Supercab, because it has a bad U-joint and a stretched yoke in the left outer of it's TRUE Dana 28 axle

there'd be far less to change if it had been previously upgraded to a D35/28 "hybred" whick already had "True D35" parts everywhere outboard of the inner U-joints...

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