im building a dana60 rearaxle from a dodge w200 to fit my 87 camaro.

The gears are like new, but no posi, i want to weld the spider gears.

But i heard bad stories of welded gears cracking and c-clips braking.

But this axle is much stronger and has no c-clips, so would welding the spider gears be allright?

Its not a daily driver at all, so thats not the prob

i know it will be hard to take cdorners but i dont care.

The gears will still break and can lodge themselves in the ring & pinion and lock up the rear end. It would cause you to loose control of the car, like pulling the parking brake at speed. Welding the gears is never a good idea.

Dont do it!!! A friend from high school was killed when the diff. came apart in a 69 Camaro with welded spider gears.Guy driving lost control and the car flipped they were only running around 50 mph when it happened.

We used to weld the spider gears (jam a 1/4" bolt in them at each contact point then weld it in) years ago in our circle track stock cars. But it was on DIRT. Never do it for a street car, and never on pavement. Holy cow! I can't even IMAGINE trying to drive on wet pavement and take a corner! You wouldn't get halfway through it before you would spin out. Good Grief!

Yes, just like a posi- and a set of real slicks on the wet then sleet!!

Been there done that!! And it was no fun at all...

Got caught 200 miles from home when it happened and the weather got worse the closer I got to home back in about Feb., '67 going to the National Junior College Basketball Final's when Moberly Jr. College won their forth National Title!!!

NEVER AGAIN!!!

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