dana 60 t&t front truss

[offroadman83]

Anybody have one? Was wondering if I could modify it enough to fit a balljoint 60 say 95 year model. Anyone??

 

[foxwar71]

People have trimmed the leaf spring mount and inside of the truss to make them fit on the late 80's/early 90's KP 60's. No reason why you couldnt do the same with the BJ ones (pre-superduty) that still had some tube showing, the center section and tubes are the same just different inner c's.


That being said, I wouldnt buy T&T's setup. Theres a couple of people that have developed cracks and broken welds on them. If youre gunna go through the effort of trussing, its alot easier and cheaper to just use a piece of something like 2x6 or 3x6 rect tubing. Simply cut it to fit and add your own brackets. If youre gunna be tossing a 60 under a XJ, I highly doubt that you are or would wanna keep a stock suspension setup/brackets anyways.





I have $30 in materials and a couple of hours with a grinder into mine, a plasma woulda made this a super quick job.

 

[offroadman83]

I was just looking at your axle buildup lol......too funny. Yeah I guess I am just lazy and I like the t&t truss I have on my hp44 right now. I know ballistic fabrication said they are working on a truss too so I guess I will see what they come up with. I am in no extreme hurry.......haven't really broke the 44 yet hehe

 

[foxwar71]

Ballistic already has their HP60 truss out there, couple of guys have even modded them to fit on the superduty BJ60's.


http://www.ballisticfabrication.com/FORD-Front-Dana-60-Truss_p_1671.html

 

[offroadman83]

yeah but they are specifically gonna make one for the cherokee buckets and all like their 30 one they just came out with.

 

[hot_rod_hooligans]

Take a look at Under Cover Fab, Matt makes trusses very similar to the BTF truss's(he used to work for, and designed most, if not all of there truss systems), at a fraction of the cost.
Example:
BTF Ford 60 truss with PSC Ram Mount
http://bluetorchfab.com/store/product_info.php?cPath=47&products_id=171

UCF Ford Dana 60 Truss System w/ Double-Ended Ram Mount
http://undercoverfab.com/truss-systems/47-ucf-chevy-dana-60-truss-system-double-ended-ram.html

 

[offroadman83]

Yeah nice stuff not sure it will work for a balljoint axle though

 

[hot_rod_hooligans]

It's supposed to be set up to fit between a stock-ish Jeep coil suspension iirc. Might want to shoot him a message.

 

[wishihad1]

not sure where youve seen any of the TNT truss's failing. Ive seen quite a few of them being ran, including myself and i have complete faith in it holding up.

anyways, its gonna be a real PITA to make it work a BJ 60, as much fab work as youd probably have to do to make it right, it would be nearly as easy to just start from scratch

 

[ROBZ95Xj]

i dont see the point of running a truss on a 60 or even cutting the leaf mount there plenty of room to mount a lower link mount and coil bucket on the drivers side, as far as upper links just run one on the pass side

 

[offroadman83]

i dont see the point of running a truss on a 60 or even cutting the leaf mount there plenty of room to mount a lower link mount and coil bucket on the drivers side, as far as upper links just run one on the pass side

You haven't seen a balljoint 60 have you. There is no room without cutting the pumpkin some. Also I want a truss to simplify things for my lazy butt lol. Also a truss properly built in case I ever want to beat the living snot out of the jeep like I like to do hahaha