I'm looking for a Solid Front Axle for my '92 F150 XLT 5.0 5spd 4x4. What kind of truck should i be looking to rip one out of? The plan for my truck is to get a donor Short Bed Regular Cab just for the decent frame, media blast the frame, and build my truck, frame up. with the solid front. Any advice or tips would be great.

 

I know that the F-250 around our years of truck has a solid front axle.

Merry X-mas.

 

1978-1979 full size Bronco. Otherwise a <-1996 F-250/F-350 with a straight front Dana 60 axle.

 

Bronco as stated above

76-79 F100/150 Dana 44 front axle. Disc brakes and 5 lugs. Radius arm/coil sprung. Requires moderate fabrication and like 6" lift.

76-79 F250 Dana 44 front axle. Disc brakes and 8 lugs. Leaf spring setup. Once you cut the leaf spring perch off, it reguires about the same fabrication and lift as above.

78-79 F250HD/F350 Dana 60 front axle. Mucho exspensive. Disc brakes and 8 lugs. leaf sprung. Requires a moderate amount of fab to hand it under the front, about the same as above and also reguires about 6" lift. Can be fabbed for leaves or coils like the 1/2 ton version.

The pre-80 axles reguire some lift to clear the center crossmember of the newer trucks. The pumkins are just to the left of center on the old trucks, and will try to occupy the same space as the engine crossmembers when you hit a bump. You might also be able to hack and reinforce the crossmember, but why would you want a solid axle and not lift it

85.5-97 F350 Dana 60 Front axle (92 was last year for king pins). Can be swapped in with stock Ford parts and no lift required (but wheres the fun in that).

98-present F250/350 solid front axles. Don't know much about these, but I'm sure if someone gave you one for free you'd find a way to sling it under there

 

finding a donor shouldnt be a problem. i found my 78 250 minus the engine and tranny for 150 bucks, and even had a decent body on it. i just hacked the frame up and kept the axles and the brackets, even most of the frame, took it to the local scrapyard fineburgs and got 100 bucks out of it.

 

No they dont, until 98 F-250's were a TTB front end(post 80 that is)
The 99 and newer SD's have decent front ends, but are a different bolt pattern.
8x170MM as opposed to 8x6.5"

 

i wouldnt say decent, ive heard some bad things about premature bearing wear, very premature.

 

that depends on how they are driven, they are either dana 50's or 60's, the only problems i have seen has been with abuse and large tires with lots of weight. Moms truck has 200k with only 1 bearing, the ex's truck has 110K with stock bearings, but neither one is lifted.

 

I used a 78 bronco d44 for my Solid axle swap, I used 8 inch skyjacker springs with adapters, cage offroad radius arms, and built all the steering myself