Hello all,
I’ve got a 97 TJ at the shop getting the rear axle regeared/new axle shafts etc. my mechanic was about to throw the axle shafts in that were for a Dana 35 out of a TJ when he realized the bolt pattern/sizing (or something, can’t remember his exact phrase) didn’t fit. He called his gear guy and found out this Dana 35 in my TJ wasn’t the stock Dana 35. I bought this Jeep a few years back from a guy who had recently bought it from a friend, it has 160k miles on it and it was driven hard so this isn’t the first curveball I’ve gotten.
My question is, is there any difference in length or specs that someone could tell me about which would tell me which vehicle this Dana 35 came out of?
I’d like to know just for my own knowledge, but it’s pretty strange because I don’t know why someone would swap axles and put the same old Dana 35 under this Jeep haha.
I’ve got a 97 TJ at the shop getting the rear axle regeared/new axle shafts etc. my mechanic was about to throw the axle shafts in that were for a Dana 35 out of a TJ when he realized the bolt pattern/sizing (or something, can’t remember his exact phrase) didn’t fit. He called his gear guy and found out this Dana 35 in my TJ wasn’t the stock Dana 35. I bought this Jeep a few years back from a guy who had recently bought it from a friend, it has 160k miles on it and it was driven hard so this isn’t the first curveball I’ve gotten.
My question is, is there any difference in length or specs that someone could tell me about which would tell me which vehicle this Dana 35 came out of?
I’d like to know just for my own knowledge, but it’s pretty strange because I don’t know why someone would swap axles and put the same old Dana 35 under this Jeep haha.