What else do you want to know?
Nothing else, just missed hearing the interesting characteristics those fascinating M series
Iz. I was wondering how you got you axle ready for the links to be welded to the axle but now that i have wasted thirty mins looking i finaly noticed yours was ready to go when you go it.
What is the best way to get rid of the cwedges or what ever they are called that the stock radius arms bolt around.
The D44 was not ready for links when I got it. Being a Wagoneer axle, the D44 I used previously sat on leaf springs. I sliced off the stock spring perches from the tube (among other things like the inner-knuckles or "C"s):
Afterwards, it was just a matter of welding the tabs for the links. The tabs for the bottom links were purchased and just needed some minor modifications (they were meant for 0 degrees mounting, the bottom links are angled in at the chassis end so just a little bit of grinding was neeed). The upper link tabs/mount was cut from 1/4" steel and welded to the housing with hi-nickel lo-hydrogen electrode.
Again the D44 I used was previously leaf-sprung so I didnt have to deal with C-wedges, but from what I can remember, most of those C-wedged axles do not have an axle tube under the full length of the casted-wedge part. So you cant just remove the wedges w/o planning ahead of what to do after its been removed:
(more info here:
http://77cj.littlekeylime.com/Dana44.htm)
If you want to go to independant links from C-wedges, I'd just get another D44 housing with leaf springs or links. SavageWolf did something about the C-wedges, I forget exactly what but its in his SAS thread (I remember a pic of something in the oven to heat it up)
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). Also, I replaced the pump maybe 7 months ago.
