Hybrid

[NJ John]

I blew the differential in my 96 ranger. after reading the posts on this site I have a dana 35 hybrid with 410 gears. I have been calling wrecking yards for the last couple of days in 3 states and they all have no listing for a 35 hybrid. today I peeled the manufacture lable and ran the numbers on the tech library 610484 Ford 28 front 95-97 1/2 ranger hybrid axle. Have I been looking for the wrong axle???? is that why they cant find it on their data base

 

[Ranger Sport Honduras]

give em that code, maybe that way they can find it

 

[Will]

It's not a hybrid, it's just a Dana 28 with some different parts from the early Dana 28. It happens to share some parts with a Dana 35. We invented the hybrid term, not Ford. They were just standardizing some parts. Here is the breakdown of the parts in all of the TTB axles--beams and cases excluded. The D28 disappeared for a few years, then came back for 1993 as what we (not Ford) call the hybrid. Look at the part numbers and you will see what makes your BOM different than the earlier hybrids.

 

[NJ John]

So what do I have I'm not trying to be rude but I'm totaly confused. I've been reading the info on this site and thought I had a 35 Hybrid, I've been looking for a 35 hybrid. So what should I be looking for a 35 or a 28

 

[AllanD]

I blew the differential in my 96 ranger. after reading the posts on this site I have a dana 35 hybrid with 410 gears. I have been calling wrecking yards for the last couple of days in 3 states and they all have no listing for a 35 hybrid. today I peeled the manufacture lable and ran the numbers on the tech library 610484 Ford 28 front 95-97 1/2 ranger hybrid axle. Have I been looking for the wrong axle???? is that why they cant find it on their data base

WE call it a "hybred" as a descriptive/derisive term,
however Ford and Dana call it a "dana 28"

The problem with them calling it a "dana 28" is that this almost invariably leads to confusion between the "late" 1993-97 Dana 28 and the original
1983-90 Dana 28

Like most parts suppliers will try to sell you U-joints and wheel bearins and such for the "Early" D28 when actually the only parts that will fit a '93-97 truck are the "Dana 35 parts) bearings brake rotors, etc)

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[heptofite]

if it's a later 28, wouldn't D35 gears fit in it anyway?

 

[Sasquatch_Ryda]

No, the 93-97 "D28" (the so called hybred) is D28 gears (again different than the older d28 gears) and D28 inner axle shafts. The rest is D35 (outer axle, wheel bearings, spindles)

 

[NJ John]

Thanks guys. I guess I've been looking for the wrong differential. No wonder I could not find one. So I need a standard 93-97 dana 28 with 410 gears.

 

[86 slo-vo]

yes...BUT...most yards will have no clue what your looking for

 

[Ozwynn]

just get a D35 and put that in ..... no more confusion