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3500 rear wheel, wheel stud replacment

Old Oct 17, 2020 | 11:17 PM
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Originally Posted by tech2
that's news to me. never seen a semi-floating axle in a 3500. it is not designed to handle the weight.
Maybe mine is strange because it is a short wheelbase 3500? It's a 2015 6.0L 12 passenger. I have a 10.5" 14bolt full floater in another truck so I know the difference. Differential catalogs don't list it... like it doesn't exist. It has 14 bolts on the diff cover.

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Old Oct 19, 2020 | 5:21 AM
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what is the cargo rating and gvwr? ... that is what they put in 1500's
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Old Oct 19, 2020 | 10:36 AM
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Originally Posted by tech2
what is the cargo rating and gvwr? ... that is what they put in 1500's
GVWR: 9600 lbs. I'm not sure where that puts the cargo rating.
It isn't a 10-bolt. It's a 9.5" 14-bolt semi-floater by what it looks like to me. The springs look setup for the larger axle as the axle tubes neck down before going into the pumpkin.
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Old Oct 19, 2020 | 6:04 PM
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I have a couple videos of the axle found in the 2003/2004/2005 model year 3500s marked as a 70S...mine is also 9600 lbs. You can clearly see it's a full floater when you pull the wheels off. I didn't film much of anything of the internals unfortunately. I always reach in the bottom searching for junk and if it's clean I just put it back together. It must be a tough axle because these vans are workhorses and you don't see many postings about them on the forums.


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