Rear D60 toyota hybrid

[robinhood4x4]

My friend just picked up an 84 toyota truck with a D44 in the front and a D60/Toyota hybrid in the rear.  I've never heard of such a hybrid, is this common?

As far as I know, it has a D60 axle housing with a toyota axle from a 90ish toyota truck complete with toyota drums.  It was re-splined to fit the D60 gears (I think). 

Are toyota axles that strong...enough to compete with the D60?

[kyle_22r]

toyota axle shafts are the same size and spline count as a typical 60 rear...i really think it would be a waste of time to build such a hybrid, as all you get is reduced ground clearance.  why not build a 60 rear with 35 spline shafts?

[robinhood4x4]

Wow, I'm impressed that the toyota axle is as big as a d60.  So the advantage would be stronger gears?

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[robinhood4x4]

Thanks, that's probably where it was done too.  I'll have to see what the build sheet says.

So it has better brakes than a normal D60 and stronger gears than a toy axle.

[Hyena]

Foothill Offroad has been making those axles for some time now.  I haven't seen any on a toyota though, maybe thats a bad sign.

[wrenchtech]

I looked at the Foothill D60 hybrid and i noticed that it seems to have the Toyota semi-floating configuration.  That seems kind of disappointing. Or am I missing something? -- Matt

[wrenchtech]

It would be nice to have a rear axle that combines the full floating elements of the Front Range Off Road Fabrication full floater conversion kit ($789.00) -- Matt