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Waggy dana 44 dis/assembly axle shaft/gears breakdown steps, with photos.

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#1 · (Edited)
Note: 1988 Waggy dana 44. These are 10 bolt outters, hence the 8 lug pattern.

Tools needed:

Dana 44 Hub socket.4 prongs.
9/64 Allen wrench
9/16 socket
Caliper bolt socket; 3/8ths Allen
Snap ring pliers
Rubber mallet


Jackstands!


Lockout outter taken off


Outter snap ring


Inner snap ring


Use a couple lockout bolts to remove the free floating lockout


TAKE OFF YOUR CALIPERS NOW!

Remove axle nut, then spacer, then other axle nut.


Hub should fall off. If not, rubber mallet on the caliper to loosen it up.


Take the 6 bolts off the backing plate.


Some good taps on the axle shaft will loosen the backing plate, then it should slide over the shaft.

Before removing the backing plate, pull off the bearing and axle seal. (its orange in this photo)


Axle shaft should pull out now.




REPEAT ON THE DRIVER SIDE.

Drain your dif, and you're ready to pull out the gears!
I run lucas oil, thats not anti-freeze :)


Make sure you mark the races on both sides, and mark which ways up! Put them back in how you took them out.


If you don't have lockouts, heres your setup:

 
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#6 ·
I searched for this a ton before I found it. NONE of the auto part suppliers had the right listing when I was looking for a "Waggy inner axle seal" they all had other numbers. it would be good to have it in this thread.

Inner Axle seal Part number: Spicer = 620257
 
#7 ·
I can not remove the free floating lockout. I removed the outer ring and the center ring. It will not move. I can move the shaft itself in and out a bit but the lock out will not move. Whats the trick?
 
#10 ·
You have the big outer wire ring out? and the snap ring off? If you do then that's all there is to do. Is you fuse broke and binding things up?
It sounds like he may have removed the wire and snap rings. Just guessing here.

Carbon, you need to be a bit more specific. Are both rings removed? Next, take a couple of the long bolts that held the lockout in place and screw them into the inner lockout splined ring. Put them 180* across from each other. This is what's shown in the 4th pic above.
 
#11 ·
That's what I read too, but I've never had one seized in there and sometimes if it's been awhile, that ring kinda blends in, which is why I asked.

95geo - How's he going to get to that spindle nut if the lockout is in there. I can't picture any way that is possible. The lockout completely fills in the hub.


Carbon, does the lockout wiggle at all? If the snap and wire rings are out and it doesn't wiggle, my next course of action would be to use a metal hammer and hit around the hub above the area where the lockout is and try to knock any rust loose. If that didn't work, I use a punch and hit the lockout itself (with some restraint of course). If that didn't work, I'd move to heat. If it does wiggle, then you're must be missing something.
 
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