Newbie Front Axle question

[94Dodge Truggy]

Nope, no rockwells. Don't even know what they are. no nope nuh uh

[Stang849]

Originally Posted by 94Dodge Truggy

Nope, no rockwells. Don't even know what they are. no nope nuh uh

Yeah Yeah!!!

[JET455]

Also a good idea is to learn to drive before going big......all these people go on one or two rides and the think they just need to be bigger. Some of the best rides can be on 31's and stock axles.


But if you must a good swap for a TJ is a set of F-350 axle 77-79 D60's

[Stang849]

Originally Posted by JET455

Also a good idea is to learn to drive before going big......all these people go on one or two rides and the think they just need to be bigger. Some of the best rides can be on 31's and stock axles.


But if you must a good swap for a TJ is a set of F-350 axle 77-79 D60's

Let me give you some back ground. The jeep is a daily driver right now with a 3" lift and 33's, stock axles. We took it to Natural Bridge and it did better than I thought it would being mostly stock, but I didn't take it on the harder trails. Mostly went on the bypasses, although it did climb the hill to the lake with relative ease. Tjjeepjeep (my wife), rode with Truggy all day Saturday, and fell in love with climbing the harder stuff, so that is why im looking at building it. I agree we need to take it out more, but scared to take it on the harder stuff with it being her DD right now.

I'm looking for input from the board on what route we should take to build it, in stages, or go for the gusto, to eventually become a rock crawler/trail rig only. Is it worth it to build it in steps, beefing up the stock stuff, then spending the money on dana 44's, only switching to a dana 60 cause you want to go places the 44 wont go. It seems more cost effective to build it once, with the right parts, instead of trial by error. A few members have told me to build it to your final requirements. If you want 37's build it for 37's, if you want bigger build it bigger from the start, to save the money.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

The dana 50 that I posted about, was just doing a search on ebay and came across it. I hadn't heard much about them so thats why I asked. Need to gain the knowledge to find the answers!!

[sarge]

Just my opinion so take it for what it's worth .... find an 8.8 out of a 95+ Explorer for the rear and put a full locker in it . Chromo the front 30 and put a soft locker in it .

This set up will allow you to run 36"-37" meats and still DD and you'll be able to enjoy it more then once a month on a trail run. wheel it like this and get used to it and then in a year or so go full width 60's and make it a trail only rig. You will be able to recover most of your $$ by selling the built 30 and 8.8 combo , it's a very popular set up for a reason.

The price on 8.8's has come down drastically in the last few months , they can be found all over the web from $100 -$250 , Add a link kit and spring buckets for another Couple of hundred bucks , $400 for a locker and for under a grand your done with the rear ( and say good buy to that POS D-35)

For about $700 you can boost up that 30 and be as strong as a 44 so why bother swaping it out .

This is the state that I'm in now ! why swap my set up for anything but a 60 combo. A HP44/60 combo is not going to to yield much more strength. I've had my eyes on a 60/60 combo for a while now and one of these days the guy might take my offer. until then the 30/8.8 combo stays. I have beat the wizz out of mine and I don't even have chromo's in the front.

OK flame on !

[JET455]

I'm with Sarge on this one.


OK a DD but how many times did have you had it offroad?

[Stang849]

It's been offroad once so far.