Is there a Dana # for the m37 axles?

bubba_got_you · Post by **bubba_got_you** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:43 pm

MSeriesRebuild · Post by **MSeriesRebuild** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 4:48 pm

bubba_got_you wrote:Is there a Dana # for the m37 axles?

Afraid not

Lifer · Post by **Lifer** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 5:33 pm

Dana, Dana, Dana! Everybody always asks about Dana axles. Haven't they ever heard of other makers of driveline components - such as Rockwell, Spicer, Muncie, or Borg & Beck, to name a few? A casual reader or someone just getting into the hobby would think that Dana is the only company who makes axles. Some, I'm sure will argue that they make the best axles, but that is a matter of personal preference just like everything else.

bubba_got_you · Post by **bubba_got_you** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 5:52 pm

Lifer wrote:Dana, Dana, Dana! Everybody always asks about Dana axles. Haven't they ever heard of other makers of driveline components - such as Rockwell, Spicer, Muncie, or Borg & Beck, to name a few? A casual reader or someone just getting into the hobby would think that Dana is the only company who makes axles. Some, I'm sure will argue that they make the best axles, but that is a matter of personal preference just like everything else.

Well then who makes these?

k8icu · Post by **k8icu** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 6:33 pm

Yeah...that's what I'd like to know who made these axles for Dodge.

MSeriesRebuild · Post by **MSeriesRebuild** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 5:09 am

From all indications these axles were built by Dodge & were not outsourced. Someone may have other valid info on the subject, but this is what has always been conveyed to me. I've never officially researched it.

Lifer · Post by **Lifer** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 5:22 am

Awww! Charles got here before I did today. Yes...Dodge built their own axles "way back then."

knattrass · Post by **knattrass** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 6:31 am

Oh Lifer..... you mean to tell me that we did not ship our scrap metal over to China back then, to melt it down and make axles, to ship them back to the U.S., so Dodge could assemble a M37, to ship over to Korea, to carry weapons, in order to wage war against China (oops, I mean the North Koreans?).

Lifer · Post by **Lifer** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 9:45 am

I'm sure that if we had been shipping any scrap to China back then, it wouldn't have been made into M37 axles. More likely, it would have been turned into armor for use by the "North Koreans" from the mainland.

Is there a Dana # for the m37 axles?

Is there a Dana # for the m37 axles?

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