Dana 30 part 1 - teardown

I will cover my front end tear down of  the Dana 30.  First I built a stand out of some 2 x 6's and used my motor lift to put it onto the bench.


Next a ball joint separator was used to take the steering linkage off. Then came the brakes. These are held in differently than what I am used to.


The are held in by being wedged in and a bolt is holding in the wedge.


Then a punch is used to drive out the wedge as in the picture.


Up next is the Warn locking hubs.  The come off quite easy.  Remove the 6 bolts holding the hub on and remove.  Take of the snap ring(1) followed but another ring(2).  The engagement gear(4) comes off next followed by the spring(3).  Then this hub(5) will come off.  A spindle nut socket is used to remove the first spindle nut(6).  Behind that is a washer then another spindle nut and another washer.


At this point the spindles can come off and it should look like the picture above.  All parts were tagged and bagged for easy reassembly.