You should contact Exodus Jeeps either here on the forum or by phone. They have experience with both.
As far as quality axles, Dynatrac definitely builds a good axle. However recently they've taken a different approach in marketing and I'm not sure how well that will work out for them in the long-term.
Edit: Too late. Exodus just chimed in.
Thanks WJCO.
Yes Dynatrac makes a good D44 housing, probably better than most manufacturers out there. They do run a little more and the lead times can be frustrating depending on how the axles configured but overall, a solid product. In all honesty there isn’t another D44 replacement axle available that I’d recommend. The market has gotten more competitive on the D60 side than it has for the D44.
We recently tried building an axle for a customer using a Currie 44 housing and things went sideways real quick. Currie undoubtedly built the housing with incorrect tube lengths, which wouldn’t allow the axle shafts to work. The drivers side became too short and the passenger side too long. It was off by 3/4” and that pretty much made the housing useless. Currie didn’t want to own the mistake and swore up and down it was correct. When I spoke slowly and with little words to them, they seem to understand the situation better and then their solution was custom shafts that WE would have to pay for. Nope. Then they didn’t want to take it back because we already painted it black. It was a fight but we finally got it returned after WE covered the return freight. 3 weeks later a Dynatrac housing arrived and all the same pieces went into the axle just fine.
I have no doubt that if the same problem occurred with Dynatrac, they would’ve covered it. Well, at least they would have last week. My account rep that’s been there since I started left this past Friday. Not sure how things will go with them from now on to be truthful. Doesn’t mean they won’t still make great D44 housings, just don’t know what kind of service I’ll get going forward.
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