Alright now let's move onto what I am currently doing. So after breaking my D30 shafts twice in the winter the decision to build a D44 was made.
I used parts from 3 axles to make it the one axle I wanted which was a HP passenger side drop XJ width D44.
1st Axle was a Chev D44 which I bought for the good warn outers and ended up deciding to use the tubes from it which were 3" x 7/16" and that way I already had the inner knuckles pointing the right way.
Cutting the Chev axle tubes:
Just one of the "dangers" of working with Dirk in the garage:
2nd I got a HP Ford D44
Next I bought Alloy Axles to fit a 70's Waggy front end.
I got them all from Chase at
http://eastcoastgearsupply.com/ who was very knowledgeable and had the best pricing for the axles I could find anywhere. The only thing I didn't like was that he didn't tell me that although he is in NC that he ships directly from manufacturer which is in WA which took 4 days longer than I expected.
Chev tubes cut to the right size and bored for inner seals.
This is the Chev tubes installed into the Ford carrier housing.
Slight technical difficutly, don't try to press a tube into the housing without bracing even if there is only 1.25" left to go. So I drove to Kaladar and started all over again with a new housing except this time it was only a 1/2 ton housing.
Ok as you can see we made the decision to pull the tubes out of the carrier housings, make sure they were right length and then reinsert them instead of cutting and sleeving them. If I were to do it all again I would probably cut and sleeve as I only accomplished all of this without to much pain and cash outlay as one of my customers is a metal fabrication shop who have an "arc-air" which makes fast work of the hardened rosette welds. But this does look better.
Dwayne
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