I have a 76 f350 "frankenstien" that I'm building. Long story short, Ive converted my 2wd to a 4wd. I used an 8 lug dana 44 that was set up for leaf springs, and converted it to a coil spring axle. The only problem I have run into is where the traction bar mounts to the axle. Obviously because it was a leaf spring axle there wasn't the typical "bolt" molded to the axle next to the passenger side radius arm bracket. Does anyone have any ideas or pictures of what they've done?? I can't find ANY aftermarket type of mount on the internet. The only picture I stumbled across was where it looked like someone welded a leaf perch to the top of the axle and ran a bolt through it to mount the traction bar. Not sure if that would be strong enough? I thought about fabbing some kind of bracket that attaches with u-bolts...........but thought I'd ask for suggestions or pics here first. Thanks for any replies!

 

The only thing i could think to do is custom fab a bracket. Not really too many other things you can do unless you did some sort of a panhard to the top of the diff to keep it from moving side to side

 

You might have better luck searching panhard bar or trac bar, because it's not a traction bar. Also, any of the vendors that cut custom pieces on pirate4x4.com will either be able to make you what you want, or have something premade that they sell that will work for you. If that doesn't work for you, check my d60 swap thread in the tech folder to see what we did for mine.

 

It's fairly easy. Here is the bracket we made for Paul's (CaptainP4) bronco with the D60
swap.

<a href="http://bit.ly/g0ivcY" target="_blank" />Check out this image!</a>

 

Dang, I was getting the pic whaile Paul Posted!

 

Well thats alot like what I had in mind!! My main worry was strength.......I wanted to see what other guys had done, and apparently that worked fine for you. That looks like a cool thread, I'll have to check it out. It looks alot like what I did, except with a dana 44, and not nearly as much lift! Thanks guys