hp dana 44 and 9 inch

ok so I have been neglecting my sas due to a broken wallet and some extensive research. So its a 1994 navajo that started out with a body lift and 31's. Then came 4.56s 35s, then a soa and lift springs. and then I broke both my hubs and my rear carrier. And decided I had enough with that glorious thing called the dana35 ttb. so I sold my 8 inch to a jeep guy and sold the ttb to another local guy. and started in on the sas.

I havent upgraded my account yet but will soon, so for now i will have to use photo bucket.

 

[Gambit606]

pics

http://s655.photobucket.com/albums/uu273/chrisbuhr39/


here is some pics before the sas. waiting for my camera to charge so i can get more pics.

 

[RangerX]

Is this a completed project, or are you just beginning?

 

[Gambit606]

Is this a completed project, or are you just beginning?

well I have the 44 and 9 in but I am a ways from finished. I still have to build my steering links, gears, lockers, brakes, hubs, bumpers, manual tcase, and rebuild the 4.0. I am thinking of doing a 4 link in the rear and hopefully get some opinions so I figured I would start a thread.

 

[Gambit606]

http://completeoffroad.com/i-124127-tie-rod-drag-link-kit-dana-3044-and-60.html

dmgilby told me about this site this is where he bought his steering. looks like a good deal so hopefully I will be able to pick this up soon, I just have to get some money to dannyboy lol. let me know what you guys think.

 

[justsomeguy]

Good luck! Totally worth it. Got most of my stuff from Ballistic. I stopped by their shop on my way to wheel in South AZ nice guys. Good stuff too.

 

[Gambit606]

nice build it looks really good. I cant remember where ive seen those radius arms, they are adjustable right? is one of them wristed? how do you like those mtr's? I am gonna be in quite a bit of snow. I had the hankook RTO3s and it seemed they were terrible in the snow.

 

[justsomeguy]

Love the MTR's...... I have a lot of experience with MTR's with work trucks. There are two arms in my pics, homemade and James Duff. No the arms are not wristed but flex pretty good anyway.

 

[dmgilby]

radius arms

hey justsomeguy did you say you cracked a custom extended radius arm? im curious where and how?

 

[Shen2187]

Perhaps -THIS- thread will give you some ideas..

 

[Gambit606]

Perhaps -THIS- thread will give you some ideas..

yeah I found that thread monday and im pretty sure ive read all 29 pages about 4 times lol.

 

[justsomeguy]

I didn't quite get the angle right on the right arm so I had to fill in a little materiel (.25") by welding. I tried low hydrogen and nickle. just kept cracking at the weld on the one side. I really just needed to cut and weld another, I just didn't feel like building another. (single parent , two boys, time is short!). The james duff arms bolted on to my mounts and fit perfectly.

 

[dmgilby]

oh thanks for clearing that up. i thought your homemade extensions cracked after use. I pre-heated mine before welding and inner sleaved the .250 Dom with some smaller Dom that I drilled so they could be welded together,should be stout. BTW nice explorer!

 

[justsomeguy]

had no problems with the extensions, to teh arms those were fine. It was were I cut and turned the arm to get caster back in line. I could have made one more arm but just ran out of fab time.

 

[Gambit606]

coil buckets

http://www.ballisticfabrication.com/Adjustable-coil-buckets_p_1183.html#

Has anybody tried these? Ive been searching for some and i think these might work out the best for what I am trying to do.

Sorry I havent been on lately i had some things happen but i am back.