Good Front Solid Axel Swap??

[JThelen]

Um in my 2WD front i have the TT and crossmembers but my friend just took his dana 35 off his jeep and i was wonderin if i could put that in my front end? if possible, would this be hard and/or expensive???

 

[Robb]

The Jeep D35 is a rear end right?

Either way, there is no cheap way. JoshC and I have both put Jeep D30 fronts in our Xs. Look in the "Project" forum for our write ups.

 

[fallintofate]

the turning radius of a d35 is gona be terrible

 

[Yomie]

Originally posted by fallintofate
the turning radius of a d35 is gona be terrible

hahaha

 

[Mbrooks420]

if possible, would this be hard and/or expensive???

A solid axle swap is a custom, difficult, expensive mod. There is no axle you can slap in place of IFS. You are completly gutting the front suspension, and steering. Fabbing un new stuff and gathering up all the various parts takes time and $$$. Then you gotta get it to actually work.

 

[Mbrooks420]

Oh, and why waste a solid axle on a 2wd?

 

[GJarrett]

Originally posted by Mbrooks420
A solid axle swap is a custom, difficult, expensive mod. There is no axle you can slap in place of IFS. You are completly gutting the front suspension, and steering. Fabbing un new stuff and gathering up all the various parts takes time and $$$. Then you gotta get it to actually work.

He has a '94 and a TTB, not an IFS.

JThelen, if you are asking if you can just put in a front D35 differential to go to 4wd (and not asking about a true SAS), Kris Guillbeaux did exactly that with his Navajo. He was careful to gather all of the necessary parts beforehand (front assembly, transfer case, etc) and have it all ready, and when the time came he practically just bolted it all in - it was a lot of work of course, but since the Explorer was built to be either 2wd or 4wd, it was almost like doing a bolt-on mod. Contact him about it.

 

[taxx]

Yup a bronco dana 44 seems like a relatively straight forward swap to a TTB explorer.

 

[Mbrooks420]

He has a '94 and a TTB, not an IFS.

Missed that

 

[Alec]

Originally posted by Mbrooks420
Oh, and why waste a solid axle on a 2wd?

Because SAS is a good way to convert to 4wd. Add a front driveshaft and manual tcase (of course with tranny and rear shaft mods) and you're done

 

[Mbrooks420]

Oh, thats all. I'm just jealous, I want SAS

 

[JThelen]

ok one quick question wat exactly is SAS?? me and my friend are debating and we need to settle this issue...

 

[cdsl227]

SAS on an IFS X is what everybody wants for Christmas!

 

[fallintofate]

Originally posted by GJarrett
He has a '94 and a TTB, not an IFS.

TTB is IFS

 

[snocross1985]

SAS = Solid Axel Swap

 

[JThelen]

TTB and IFS ar not the same thing ford started makin IFS in 95' i have a 94' which means i aint got IFS (thank god)

 

[Robb]

Originally posted by JThelen
TTB and IFS ar not the same thing ford started makin IFS in 95' i have a 94' which means i aint got IFS (thank god)

Your TTB is a split axle..........it is IFS. It is commonly stated that 95+ are the only IFS ones, but ALL Explorers (except SASes) are IFS.

 

[JThelen]

yes given it is split but that does not make it independent...in IFS it was created so that when the one side of a tire hit somethin in the road it wouldnt affect the other side and the TTB is split but techinically is whole casue one side attaches to the other theys just a big gap in between

 

[Mbrooks420]

Technically a TTB is a type of IFS. No way around it.

 

[JThelen]

i agree that it is a type of IFS just not exactly it cause we all know what a pain IFS is to work w/ when doin a suspension and the TTBs wasnt that bad at all