Ultimate Dana 60 Failure

Ddays

Ddays

Hooked
wayoflife said:
Yup, seen a few of those on the JK. Definitely one of the reasons why I was so reluctant to give the UD60s a try. Fortunately, Dana has been listening to their customers and made well needed improvements for the JL and with the new Advantek 44. Again, my whole purpose for testing out the UD60 is to see how they'll hold up. If they end up breaking, I assure you that I will post as much here on the forum and on YouTube. That being said, so far, I've been pretty impressed with them.
Click to expand...

So the improvements make to the JL axles haven't filtered down to the JK versions?
 
wayoflife

wayoflife

Administrator
Staff member
Ddays said:
So the improvements make to the JL axles haven't filtered down to the JK versions?
Click to expand...

Honestly, I don't even know if they still make the original version that came out during the JK (what I was referring to). I'm pretty sure they're all the newer Advantek 44.
 
Ddays

Ddays

Hooked
wayoflife said:
Honestly, I don't even know if they still make the original version that came out during the JK (what I was referring to). I'm pretty sure they're all the newer Advantek 44.
Click to expand...

Aha. Great, thanks for the clarification. Was curious for the guys with JK's that could be looking at the UD60's....
 
wayoflife

wayoflife

Administrator
Staff member
Ddays said:
Aha. Great, thanks for the clarification. Was curious for the guys with JK's that could be looking at the UD60's....
Click to expand...

Yeah. Mel did a great job of pointing out the improvements made as well as where others could be made like to the corners of the brackets. He said that would be about 20 min of welding to address but of course, being that we were going to hack everything off our UD60, it wouldn't be needed. I did express concern about the WARN hubs and he said that I could always install a set of Dynalocks if I wanted. But, for the purposes of our testing of them, I decided to just stick with what most people would get.
 
cozdude

cozdude

Guy with a Red 2-Door
wayoflife said:
Yeah. Mel did a great job of pointing out the improvements made as well as where others could be made like to the corners of the brackets. He said that would be about 20 min of welding to address but of course, being that we were going to hack everything off our UD60, it wouldn't be needed. I did express concern about the WARN hubs and he said that I could always install a set of Dynalocks if I wanted. But, for the purposes of our testing of them, I decided to just stick with what most people would get.
Click to expand...

What’s different about the warn hubs over dynalocks?
 
-AINOKEA-

-AINOKEA-

Hooked
wayoflife said:
Yeah. Mel did a great job of pointing out the improvements made as well as where others could be made like to the corners of the brackets. He said that would be about 20 min of welding to address but of course, being that we were going to hack everything off our UD60, it wouldn't be needed. I did express concern about the WARN hubs and he said that I could always install a set of Dynalocks if I wanted. But, for the purposes of our testing of them, I decided to just stick with what most people would get.
Click to expand...

What’s the concern about the warn hubs?


Sent from my iPhone using WAYALIFE
 
Ddays

Ddays

Hooked
wayoflife said:
Yeah. Mel did a great job of pointing out the improvements made as well as where others could be made like to the corners of the brackets. He said that would be about 20 min of welding to address but of course, being that we were going to hack everything off our UD60, it wouldn't be needed. I did express concern about the WARN hubs and he said that I could always install a set of Dynalocks if I wanted. But, for the purposes of our testing of them, I decided to just stick with what most people would get.
Click to expand...

Great - thank you for the clarification!
 
JKbrick

JKbrick

Active Member
wayoflife said:
They stick out a lot more, aren't know to be as strong and in this thread, there was one person who pointed out a failure. Granted, it was most likely quality control at assembly but there's that. So far, haven't had any problems with ours.
Click to expand...

It’s not how far it sticks out, it’s how you drive it [emoji6]


Sent from my iPhone using WAYALIFE mobile app
 
bkac

bkac

Caught the Bug
wayoflife said:
They stick out a lot more, aren't know to be as strong and in this thread, there was one person who pointed out a failure. Granted, it was most likely quality control at assembly but there's that. So far, haven't had any problems with ours.
Click to expand...

Isn’t it true is the dynatrac hub breaks it breaks in the locked position vs warn breaks it will be unlocked? I swear I heard that somewhere which could be a great thing if you were still on the trail. With that said I haven’t see or heard of many or any of the UD warn hubs breaking. It seems that can take a beating.


Sent from my iPhone using WAYALIFE
 
wayoflife

wayoflife

Administrator
Staff member
JKbrick said:
It’s not how far it sticks out, it’s how you drive it [emoji6]
Click to expand...

:cheesy: :cheesy: :cheesy:

bkac said:
Isn’t it true is the dynatrac hub breaks it breaks in the locked position vs warn breaks it will be unlocked? I swear I heard that somewhere which could be a great thing if you were still on the trail. With that said I haven’t see or heard of many or any of the UD warn hubs breaking. It seems that can take a beating.
Click to expand...

You are correct and like you, I haven't seen or heard of many WARN hubs breaking.
 
wayoflife

wayoflife

Administrator
Staff member
OverlanderJK said:
Have there been dynatrac hub breaks? I haven’t seen any.


Sent from my iPhone using WAYALIFE
Click to expand...

Nope. Not a one. The Dynalocs are well made and they’ve always served me well. I got a shit ton of hard miles on mine too.


Sent from my iPhone using WAYALIFE
 
longarmwj

longarmwj

New member
wayoflife said:
Nope. Not a one. The Dynalocs are well made and they’ve always served me well. I got a shit ton of hard miles on mine too.


Sent from my iPhone using WAYALIFE
Click to expand...

Oh come on don’t lie. You know the only true hard miles you have are highway miles trying to chase the best deals at Macy’s 🤪


Sent from my iPhone using WAYALIFE mobile app
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom