Dana 35 Breakage Poll

What Gear Ratio and Tire Size caused your D35 to Bust? Choose more than one.

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33's with a Detroit true track and 4.10 gears. The carrier threw a couple bolt heads that got picked up in the gears ans mangled everything.
Upgraded to a Ford 8.8" with an LSD. The the LSD carrier broke and upgraded to a full carrier Detroit Locker.
 
33s lincoln locked and blew out the pinion bearing...geared 4.10
 
I've broken mine with 31" a/t's, 32" m/t's and 33 boggers and a/t's all with 3.73 gears. Most of the time its the driverside shaft snapping but torn the spiders up too a couple times. No problems so far with 4.88s and 33 m/t's
 
Broke mine with 4.10 gears, 33" claws and a lockright. Happened right here. Shoulda stopped after the first bounce.
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Went with an 8.8 years ago and haven't had an issue since. Currently minispooled on 36" SXs with steel beadlocks.
 
i had 3.07s with some 13.50x33 ltbs.... well lets just say i tried to get them to spin over on the pavement.... revved her up dumped the clutch and it didnt even move just lots of interesting noise... best thing i ever did to my truck:driver:
 
been wheeling 99tj with 37 locked ft and bk for 6 years run 35 boggers one trip to telico broke ft after the big ledge on upper 2 to much skinny peddle put 456 gears bk put 37s bk on been there ever sence done lots of hard lines wheel base 92 in really bad fixing 78s10 on full blazer frame ton axles 112 wheel base looking forward to trying it out . d35s been good.
 
RenegadeT said:
I hope talking about it doesnt bring out the curse...
I welded the 35 in my ECORs racerig and have beat it thru 4 races now. I assume the ratio is 3.54, but never bothered to count teeth. Auto transmission, NP231, standard XJ stuff. Now, off to load it up for Harlan Saturday.
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I thought I posted a followup here, but I guess not.
My turdy5 made it thru 1.95 more races (that last 0.05 really sucked). Shaft quietly snapped right at the drivers side carrier bearing, ejected the wheel/tire/drum/shaft a few feet later.
Oh well, the first thing I did on this years rig was swap in a welded 29-spline 8.25.
 
32s and 3.73
& broke the spiders on the drive to the store (but also was hard on the shiny pedal)
now have a Dana 44
 
I broke mine on 33s 3.73s and open giving to some skinny pedal going up Daniels trail.
 
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