95 f250 axle question.

[king_of_nothing]

Just bought a 1995 f250 300 l6 5 speed 2wd. I have the 10.25 sterling I believe. It's a semi-floater, and not knowing much about fords is there anyways to convert the axle to full-floating? Or is a full axle swap the only way. I would love to keep it with it being 4.10 limited-slip and all.

 

[1970Custom]

Why convert it? The 10.25/10.5 Sterling axles are damn near bomb proof.

 

[king_of_nothing]

I would love to keep the stirling, but the one i have is a semi-floater and im not a huge fan of c-clips. altho after 238k miles im thinking the limited-slip could use a rebuild ha ha

 

[Fellro]

If it is a Sterling, it has no c-clips. If you have a hub sticking out of the rim, and 8 bolts holding the axle to the hub, I can assure you there is no c-clips. That is only on the axles with a flat flange. On a Sterling you can take the axle out without jacking the truck up. You simply take the 8 bolts out on the end of the hub and pull the axle out.

 

[king_of_nothing]

some sterlings did have c-clips, atleast thats what it came up with when i searched it. nope no standard hub of a floater sticking out. just looks like an extremely beefy half ton axle. if its not a sterling what else could it be? code on the door is c5 seeing as the axle tag has been mangled half to death ha ha. cant expect too much from a 600 buck clunker that actually runs.

 

[king_of_nothing]

 

[king_of_nothing]

holy wow that turned out huge.....

 

[1970Custom]

Ah, those axles....

Drive it till it breaks then replace it, although I don't see a 2wd getting into a situation to break axle shafts

 

[king_of_nothing]

those axles? yeah you wouldn't think so, but a person can be surprised. just my luck ill put it through hell and back, then have it break on a grocery run like normal 0.0

 

[Fellro]

Danas sometimes were used with the light duty trucks like that one. If you have the fill plug in the rear cover, it is a Dana.

 

[dustybumpers]

One of my trucks has the same rear. It has 490,000 miles on it, only problem so far, the cover plate got a hole rusted through it, and had to be replaced. I'm not very nice to that truck, so You should be fine.

 

[king_of_nothing]

Danas sometimes were used with the light duty trucks like that one. If you have the fill plug in the rear cover, it is a Dana.

nope no drain plug lol. holly wow thats allot of miles. my last truck had about 200k on it, whole drive train whent to crap, engine trany and rear end all withing a month of each other, maybe people are right about some gmcs haha.

 

[95F350XL]

No maintenance and nothing will last forever, doesnt matter who makes it. Im over maint since im a mechanic and replace engines/trans/rears/tcases from people never changing the fluids. If there is a fluid or a filter, it needs to be changed when recommended.

 

[king_of_nothing]

i hear you there, that was all rite after i bought it. whoever owned it before me really didnt know what he was doing.. heck part of the wiring harness was ran under the right valve cover. yeah no maintenance was done to ir for a very long time it seemed ha ha.