Technical Full floating axle on a hotrod ?

Hello eveyone.

So, I have a full floating freshly built axle I scored a while ago.
It is not even close to being a traditional axle from the start since its a Dana.
But how off would it be to install it on my car besides the brand ?
I mean, has anyone ever seen any hotrods coupes or roadsters with full floating axles ?

Thanks for any help

 

Some were in the model A thread there is car with wide 5 wheels and what a appears to be a floater rear.

I have a 57 Olds type rearend here that's got floating axles .
I suspect was in a circle track car.
I have seen some old drag cars that had a floater .

 

Dana rears been around a long time. My 51 still has its Dana 44.
Round track guys been running full float since about a week after full floats hit the junk yard

 

My Model A has a full-float rear axle.

 

If you think about how the rear hubs mount on a Ford banjo axle....

 

Great to know. Mine is a 44 as well

 

A full-float Dana 44?

What's that out of?

 

Dana44 has been used on many cars here in the 70s, but none were factory full-float. It was converted at some point

 

It's a great axle. Well supported to this day in the aftermarket.

I ran an off-highway vehicle Dana 44HD (2.75" OD, 1/2" wall tubes) in the front of an offroad truck for over a decade. Zero issues.

 

Yeah, they are good. Ive just never seen one on a hotrod. Just wondering if mine is going to be the only one, even rarer being full-float

 

I would like to see pictures of that, please. I think there was, or is, a kit for lock out hubs on the rear axle for Willys Jeeps, which basically made the axle a full-floater. The later CJ3As had Dana 44s.

 

The A I saw in the thread today .

I copied it to my computer because it had a Hemi in a channeled A like I want to do ( 31 PU ) and it had a really cool industrial / gasser look to it with the floating rear end .

I have seen 8 lug magnesium rims before that made me think it was on a floater in a dragster or other drag car

 

I know there was a kit that let you looked like lock out hubs that were for the rear so guys could flat tow there old Willys jeeps . A neighbor had them on his years ago

 

I had a Prefect drag car with a full float d60 out of an old dump truck - guys used them because they were easy to narrow - they cut the flange off the axle shaft, bored it out and welded it back together at the length they needed - couldn't do this with a semi float

 

After having one in a dirt race car I would put one in any car I was building.

 

Awesome. Thanks for that one.
And here is mine

 

Grasso and Mills Willys drag car from Nebraska. It had a full floater truck axle until it got pro streeted in the late 80's.

 

Well, I'd say "kind of" . . . when you break an axle in our early Ford rear ends, the hub/wheel does "float" . . . right off of the rear end! LOL.

On what I'd call a true full-floater, you can break an axle and the hub stays where it is supposed to.

 

I've a 42 Ford 3/4 ton rear in my avatar, also added 37 tube front axle with skeleton back plates, 2-1/2 " wide 5 safety hubs & finned drums.

 

Fairly common in the 60's.

 

Nope.

My Model A has a Winters quick change, with Grand Nation snouts, and hubs.