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Originally Posted by kentuckytwostep
I put mine in an XJ and it was amazing how easy it was... Almost like the cherokee designers aimed for people to swap in late 70's ford stuff. The rear axle bolted right up. rear leaf spring perches were 1/2" off and I welded on some new axle side shock mounts flush with the bottom of the axle. Had to offset the front coils inward by maybe and inch on each side. Front shocks bolted up. I mated the ford trac with the XJ trac and they lined up perfect... For the steering I kept the ford tierod but moved it to OTK and made a drag link (using 1 ton cheby TRE's) to run up to the steering arm. I made my own frame end mounts for the radius arms but they could be purchased from one of the many parts suppliers out there.
for a TJ... the rear is what would take you so long. You'd have to get link brackets to weld to the 9" housing.
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The rear has a 8.8 Ford already. I'm just trying to find something for the front.so you used all the factory axle mounts on the 44 and just slid DOM over the arms? How reliable was it?