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Got some cleaning up and bracing to do, almost done.. All pics of project...

Here is what got accomplished today... It is far from being done....

Needed something to do.. Rear Arms

Wondering where the pics of the finished product are???

Awesome... you are going to be on a solid axle in no time!! LOL, here is the 44/60 mix. 35 spline shafts all the way.... ARB and Detroit make a 35 spline locker for the 44. :bow: :bow: :bow:

Any trailer supply place has those shackles, they are like 8 bucks ea. The Metal yard will have receiver tubing, it has the seam removed from the inside. What I could recommend is weld this stuff on now, you need to put a couple more coats of herc on anyway. As far as your welding.... who cares.. yank the crap out of it when you are offroading. If it breaks it is not like you don't have a welder to fix it... learning is half the fun of wheeling Before other stuff: After:

It has Minnesota plates... I saw it from I-70, just had to pull in and check it out.... the vultures were circling!! -thnkboutit-

I about lost my lunch when I saw this.... All that work for? wow

Trial by fire...

They come with a jig to drill through the frame in the right position... looks like a nice set of bushings, the shackles look like thicker material than what's used my 3/4 ton truck. Hmm, guess we will find out how they work, cause there is going to be a few people using them.

I have a Calmini steering system laying in the corner of the garage. It did the job for a couple seasons and yes it wasn't perfect and no you can't have it. However it is a patch for a crappy system to begin with (As in the whole Nissan front end, my A/C control arms squeaked the whole time I used them.). For the most part the rest of their products have treated people well. What I feel most were a little discouraged with was the attitude of the customer service. With the recent posts I have read, it looks like they are asking what folks really want.... hmm, that sounds like a change from what we all heard about in the past. I'm keeping my fingers crossed XXX XXX The crawler gears are awesome!!! It is just amazing the difference they made with my rig....

I have have my stock coils... but perches, I may know where to grind off a set. Just wondering what the upper side of your coils mount to or set in? Got a pic?

By the tones I have noticed, Calmini is on the edge of not being around. I don't know what you guys think, but the prices on the sas stuff they do have seem really reasonable. Maybe we have seen a good trend at a company who supports our junk. Wouldn't that be nice......

It is really easy to throw a chunk a receiver tubing under the upper square box... just think of all the things you can mount to it... racks to winches If you put bedliner on it make sure it is herculiner.. the rest of the brands don't cut it. Can't wait to see it on the truck :cool2:

If my rig is going to be your wallpaper... it had better look good... Here is a High Res of the 3rd pic..

I care about both ends... Most of the battle when setting this stuff up is making the front and rear play together or share the load. Now when the truck is on level ground flexing, the body sets level thus sharing the load. Here are three sets of pics: Truck level, Front up, Rear up...... its all about where the weight is at... Level: The front and rear are sharing the load, truck setting level... Rear up: The front is handling most the weight of the truck so it takes the hit Front Up: Rear taking hit... Your right... who cares... Me!!

I'll could put something together... It will be a few weeks before I can get to it though... just having TOO MUCH FUN wheeling again...

Out messing around again... Got the rear to stuff purdy good... sly

I think your are in Fort Collins... I saw some R50's at Blakes Auto Salvage in Erie....

I get waggies for around 70-100 complete at the pull your owns here in Denver, but 150 isn't a bad price if it comes with everything. Waggie axles would work fine for a SAS like mine. You would have to buy the C-wedges from jamesduff.com in order to use the radius arms from a bronco with the waggie axle. The only thing I can think that could be different is the pinion angle, I think the 73-77 Bronco pinions are pointed up a little more. So you may run into some difficulty there.. 85 Bronco will not work unless the axle is not original. Now a solid hp full width Ford Dana 44 can be narrowed by using one of these. With this you wouldn't have to wrist an arm in order to get good articulation. When you cut the axle just cut out an extra chunk of tube in order to make it the width you would want. You may have to get a custom shaft made for that side, however it would work. There is a EB housing and gears at Klamath Falls...Klamath Auto Wreckers 1-800-452-3301. I don't know what they want for it, but it may be worth a call.... A person just uses the housing anyway....

There are a few things left to do.. hmm.. isn't there always! I hear Calmini is wanting your input on their sas kit...Check It Out!!!!

I lived in Michigan for a couple years, and I made it over to your neck of the woods. I like it there!!! However about 300miles Northeast.........

A Dana 44 is half ass when locked with no tire slippage at moab.... There are folks that take a Dana 44, install Dana 60 knuckles and buy a 35 spline locker. I guess if you want that half inch clerance... it would work. I dont plan on having any problem with the stock VG30 pushing things along, but when the power gets installed I plan on problems with the front. Nature of the beast... Here is what my buddy ended up doing over time! He still comes home broken.... A high pinion should work great.. With mine there would be exhaust clearance issues. This could be fixed by running duels all the way back or moving the y-pipe/crossover pipe back by the cat...

The tires are 33x12.50 super swamper radials. I like them being interco tires tend to run a little narrow there isnt any clearance problem with the rear wheelwells. They still rub the top of the rear tubs when fully stuffed...

I go to the shops in town and they say.. all that work why didnt you go with a Dana 60 Low pinion is easier.. this EB axle is ready to go with the chevy outers. It is the same width of rear axle (Same with the Waggie axles). Most high pinion D44's are full width. Now if I was going to go through the pain of narrowing a high pinion axle it would be a dana 60... why mess with a 44... 35spline outers etc. The kewl part of the dana 60 (modified to fit an early Bronco) is that it bolts right on to my truck with this setup. So my truck is built for that option if needed. The bumper is built out of 3/16 box steel and plate. It was cheap at the local scrap yard. Before the Herculiner I had around 60 bucks into it. The bumper is probably one of the better things I have made. The only downfall to it is you can't use it with a body lift, or you must build it for a body lift. Other than that it works, I wanted it to cover the front crossmember of the frame and match the cutout front wheelwells...