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Thats what I was afraid of, I know on the fords the design of the knuckle and spindle do not let you remove the knuckle with the shafts in place - short side shaft on a D44/D60 is never retained, if comes out once the spindle is removed. Its the long side that worries me.
The solid tube axles dodge uses are slightly different than the IFS axles ford uses (or solids in the jeep for that matter), its no longer a question of removing a keystone clamp and then the long side shaft slides off splines from a stub shaft ujointed to the intermediate, but you have to disassemble the sliding collet mechanism for the intermediate shaft (ford/jeep dana applications use the locking hubs to tie the front wheels together, the G2 dodge uses something similar to what is in chevys transaxle to tie the intermediate shaft to the long side shaft) - from the manual there appears to be at least 3-4 special dodge tools - of which Im pretty sure I wont have.
the hub tool is no brainer, I have about 6 of them covering D20-70 for like 40 years of applications.
My hope was that where was room to get the knuckles off without first pulling the shafts so I could use the tool on the stub shaft u joints right there, saving the customer a lot of time (hence $$)
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