Rear End Problems?

[blazerbrad]

Originally Posted by sickws6

Yea. What about a cj-5 rear what would need modified to that to fit my yj? There is a guy selling his complete rear out of his cj-5 and wants 150 for it.

The CJ's also had a different wheel bolt pattern.

I would think you could find a rear axle out of a YJ that would bolt right in, just have to get the right gear ratio.

[jfiscus]

Searching here:
http://cincinnati.upullandpay.com/search.aspx

Comes up with a 98 & 99 explorer. These should have the 8.8 you need.
Bring someone with you to the yard to help you check the gear ratio.
Out the door with brakes & all will run you around $250 unless you have a coupon from a previous visit there. Call them & they'll tel ya the exact price.
Pull the correct one, bring it & your old axle to my garage along with a pack of 4.5" cut-off wheels & I'll get the perches on the 8.8 for ya for cheap.

[sickws6]

Originally Posted by jfiscus

Searching here:
http://cincinnati.upullandpay.com/search.aspx

Comes up with a 98 & 99 explorer. These should have the 8.8 you need.
Bring someone with you to the yard to help you check the gear ratio.
Out the door with brakes & all will run you around $250 unless you have a coupon from a previous visit there. Call them & they'll tel ya the exact price.
Pull the correct one, bring it & your old axle to my garage along with a pack of 4.5" cut-off wheels & I'll get the perches on the 8.8 for ya for cheap.

I have have a grinder/cutoff tool I could cut off the ford mounts and the jeep perches. And I can also borrow my buddies welder, thanks for the info and your offer to help. I will take a look at that site. I know there are plenty of write-ups on 8.8 conversion but what are the necessary steps?

[jfiscus]

cut and weld new perches on, put the flange on the u-joint, bolt that fugger in?

[sickws6]

Originally Posted by jfiscus

cut and weld new perches on, put the flange on the u-joint, bolt that fugger in?

haha nice! What bout the brakes, use the disks or drums. and what about the shock mounts?

[jfiscus]

cut off & weld the shock mounts onto the 8.8 when you do the spring perches.
jeep only welded these on the outside of the mounts - making it easy to remove these off a junk axle.

definitely keep the disks for better stopping power, you may need to adapt the two lines from jeep metric to ford if they are standard, but that is cake.

[sickws6]

Originally Posted by jfiscus

cut off & weld the shock mounts onto the 8.8 when you do the spring perches.
jeep only welded these on the outside of the mounts - making it easy to remove these off a junk axle.

definitely keep the disks for better stopping power, you may need to adapt the two lines from jeep metric to ford if they are standard, but that is cake.

gotcha, is there engough hydraulic pressure for the ford calipers?