Crew Cab Long bed with a lot of duct tape on it and Michigan manufacturer plates on the 60 freeway tonight.

Looks pretty good. Same bed as the king cab.

3/4 or 1 ton? did it smoke any?!?!?!

Still had a little D44 under the back, so I'm guessing it was a 1/2 ton....no, it didn't appear to be a diesel...they're probably being a little more careful keeping those hidden.

They've really got to get a bigger axle under the back of those things... At the very least give the buyers an option for a larger one.

Toyota is already exploiting the rearend issues by bragging about the 10.25 ring gear in there new 380 hp monster. I'm sure they are after the people who had problems with thiers.
Lator....

Its funny because I see this sortof thing every day. Numbers wise from the engineer's design book, the diffs are rated to hold up, but in the real world they just dont cut it.

They need to put in a D60 or something equivalent to the massive H266 rear axle.

Not sure why they're just not using H233B's in the 1/2 tons or H260s to begin with.

The Dana axles are probably $10 cheaper.

Maybe if they used real dana axles instead of renaming the junk they are using. Thats what happens when marketers design a 4x4. Maybe they should hire marketers who actually wheel instead of play golf.
Lator....

I'm praying for a 3/4 diesel, manual tranny, crew cab long bed with a d70 or d80 in 2009....probably a pipe dream, though. If not, I'll probably be looking for a 6 lug sf 14 bolt when this is out of warranty.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by chevyman_57:
I'm praying for a 3/4 diesel, manual tranny, crew cab long bed with a d70 or d80 in 2009....probably a pipe dream, though QUOTE]

I'll be the first person in line for that truck

I don't get it; so the titan rear is not a Dana44 like they said? My dads 77chev has been rolling around with a D44 rear; it's a 1/2 ton; and since i was a kid we've pulled ski boats, horse trailers, campers, loads and loads of wood, rock, everything you can think of.

it's never blown up. I just can't see how this axle is a POS. I'm not at all worried about mine. But if it blows i'll go find a 6 lug chev 14bolt and put in there

Your dad's 77 chevy probably had under 200hp too with an anemic low compression carbed and smogged 350.

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Originally posted by datz510:
They've really got to get a bigger axle under the back of those things... At the very least give the buyers an option for a larger one.

yes they do... and a solid front would be nice...



...and the rear end is a real dana axle, just not like any other 44 out there.. it has big-ass axle shafts (same dia. as d70, but these are only 32 spline), 12 bolt cover, and a full 9" ring gear, which is the weakest link... the titan def. need a 60 or 70 out back, and 60 up front...
then we'd be good to go...

77 chevy would have a 12bolt out back, not a d44.

...or a 10 bolt even, which is VERY similar to a D44.

77s with 10 bolts are pretty rare, they went in as the factory ran out of d44/12bolt combos at the end of the year. There are lots and lots of 78-79 trucks with d44/12bolts as well. Typical GM.

They just need to throw in a H266. Don’t even deal with dana.

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Originally posted by LordBiotree:
They just need to throw in a H266. Don’t even deal with dana.

yup...

thats what makes it stupid, they have the big bad axles available yet they put that pile in the titan. Oh and if your behind a armada and see that teeny tiny diff in that IFS rearend under that honkin mom mobile mongoloid box, what a joke.

Probably saves them $100 per truck. It's a lot cheaper to source dana axles in the states where the trucks are built than it is to ship corporate axles over from Japan.

Multiply that times 100,000 production units, and you have $10 million a year.

Simple economics on that one.