Straight Axle Conversion
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Originally Posted by RoadRash
The fabritech kit is the one that BGYard sells and yes the price is correct. One of my posts furthur in the discussion states the fact that the kit does not include the axle and I price out the remaining parts from BGyard. You may have missed the post when cruising threads, I know I do it.
The cage arms are good but don't come with the end caps. For coil springs, an track bar mount will need to fabricated and that's the only thing provied by Fabritech that can't be readily acquired elsewhere. Rumor has it the Cage is going to offer track bar brackets in the near future. What many guys do is run the 78/79 radius arms and sometimes modify them.
I too have researched this and of in fact been acquiring parts and have the complet axle and rebuild parts.
Last edited by rlh; Mar 1, 2005 at 08:24 AM.
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The over priced portion I got, and totally agree, but I missed reading between the lines with the marginal quality part.
If they come out with a bolt in track bar bracket that would be a major seller, and ease the grief for the "not so skilled" fabbers out there.
I bet you garage looks like mine as I got enough parts to do a ttb leaf, coil solid and leaf solid front ends, but only for the 44. I am just waiting for the right 60 (cheap) to come along before I start.
The over priced portion I got, and totally agree, but I missed reading between the lines with the marginal quality part.
If they come out with a bolt in track bar bracket that would be a major seller, and ease the grief for the "not so skilled" fabbers out there.
I bet you garage looks like mine as I got enough parts to do a ttb leaf, coil solid and leaf solid front ends, but only for the 44. I am just waiting for the right 60 (cheap) to come along before I start.
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Do a "SAS" search in this forum, and find a thread from "jimmydean". I posted my boneyard sas parts list. I did this for about $500 four years ago. It came out awesome. I have some swap pics in my gallery. Steve
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would it be worth it to buy the parts straight from broncograveyard... ie. radius arms, ra brackets, upper and lower coil buckets/supports, coils....hmm theres not muhc else but the steering...then u got new stuff...steal an axel from a 79 and not worry about rusty nasty bracketry.... also are the 700 dollar extended RA's worth it...i know there are some do it yourself write ups for those ra's since there straight...
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I mainly did mine with boneyard parts (cleaned and painted) because I was on a budget and I wanted the parts to look fairly stock. The 78 axle/parts on my 94 look like they came that way from the factory. I've seen about 10-15 trucks with the swap done, and no two were done the same. If you think you need $700 radius arms, than go for it. Mine were $20 (boneyard).
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