Does Anybody Run 32-34 ! Ton Truck Front Axles?

Looking at a couple and just wondering if anybody runs em in a car? I have one in a 32 one ton.They are HEAVY DUTY...

 

I think there's a car on my new Mad Fabricators DVD that is using a heavy truck axle. I'll check it out again. I've only watched it once and I fell asleep cause I had just got off of work. Laterman, Josh.

 

ok please let me know.I think it would be Ok in a car .

 

Well the spindle bearings and brakes are so big it would be hard to find a set of wheels to fit right, unless you went with a 8 or 10 lug wheel.
I work for International and have eyeballed some of the older 1600 axles for the same reason.

 

Yeh they are big alright...I had a look at one on a 32 big truck, i reckon you could make it work with car spindles and some clever machining..
the wishbone is definitely worth considering, they have a really handy kink up at the ball that would help get underneath the rails on a low car with unsplit bones.

 

Deuce big beam or small beam? It's strange that I have 2 BB chassis in my stash and neither has what is called a big beam axle. I have several 32 car front ends and they are all the big beam. I am going to build the short wheel base BB and will switch to the big beam axle because it looks more like a truck axle.

 

not a 32 heavy axle...bigger again. taller spindle boss and perch pin boss, might have been on 2 ton and up? the 32 "heavy" axle is not even close to the size of these things..

 

You could machine the stubs down to car size Its not quite legal here in Sydney, but i don't think it should be a problem in the States.