I'm sorry I have to tell you this sir, but as a long time Mopar owner, I can and I do. Nothing suprises me much anymore, but there have been a couple of "impressive" (heavy on the sarcasm) things that have raised an eyebrow.
I'm impressed there's even a hole drilled in it. The D-44, or at least mine has nothing but the casting nodules.
I can almost see some bookkeeper at Dana corp adding up the seconds it takes to tap the holes, have nuts and stop bolts assembled and put in by some hourly well paid union employee who then has to jig and adjust said assembly (or have another person do it) down the line. He probably had to take a couple Valium and his blood pressure meds with a shot of Whiskey. But maybe he/or she ended up with a letter of commendation and a dinner for two coupon.

 

the 60's and 44's are alittle different.
mine



miami's

 

That's impressive because my 44 doesn't have those nuts and screws, and there is enough metal to install them.
I'm thinking everybody needs to grab a flashlight and thier camera or cellphone and crawl under thier truck...
Well ...GET MOVIN'!!

 

As far as i know they'er stock. The only thing i'v done to it is add springs and shocks and blocks. onless the previous owner did it but i dont see what he could done to add them ?

 

I'm sure they're stock and as I posted earlier, the fact that you have them and I don't doesn't suprise me, although I did have another "eyebrow raising" moment.

 

if you look the only real difference is the steering part. the part that's connected to the axle is the same.

 

Actually the axle yoke is different somewhat..
the bottom balljoint presses into an angled yoke where as your's is machined flat on the bottom .
Makes the D60's harder to service the lowers.IMHO

Miami my front's do not touch when turning the wheel but the back stops do. Thus effectively stopping one wheel while the steeering is still trying to turn the other.
So I guess DIME-ler was trying to save some cash on the adjustables.

the backs are circled.
the photo of them touching is obscured by the caliper mount so I didn't include it here.

 

The axle yokes on the 60 are thicker, as well. I'll have to look again because I didn't see any stops on the backside. Looks like yours make contact a lot.

Can't believe how much rust you guys have on your trucks.

 

New England winters did mine in.

 

Minnesotta hasnt quite figured out a way to make it not snow during the winter. thats why mines rusty