I've thought about this alot, and I've even seen a picture of it done. Everyone ragged on they guy about the setup though, but I think it could work very well.

Lets say you had a dana 60 that you wanted to put under your coil sprung radius armed rig. What if you made a set of radius arms that bolted on top of the oem spring pad, and had the coil bucket and shock mount on top of the arm? The spring would be directly above the stock spring pad, and the arm would be sandwiched. The arm would only be a couple of inches thick here, and would just cause some extra lift.

This isnt the same as a front lift block like alot of the people were saying though. Plus, being R/A, it wouldnt be capable of any wrap. If it was made right, with good materials it could make a 60 swap pretty much bolt in. All you would have to fab on the axle is the trac bar mount.

I'm not anywhere near a 60 swap, just been thinking about it alot since it pops up alot. I figure with a setup like this, with some longer (40ish") radius arms, and some soft coils, you could net a pretty nice ride. I'm gonna post this on pirate too, see if I can get flamed.

So whats the thoughts on this? If I could find the pictures of the rig I would, but I cant seem to put my finger on them..

 

It has been done. Usually everyone cuts the spring perches off of the 60 and grinds it smooth. Then they weld on wedges. JBG has them. Then you can install radius arms.

I have done alot of research on doing just this. I have also been looking at cage arms. I plan on doing a 60 swap in my F150 before long.

 

Isnt there some sort of issue sometimes about one side of the mounts being cast into the housing on some years though? Or is that on the passenger side drops? I was just thinking along the lines of someone selling a kit to bolt a 60 under a rig in a day.

 

Fabtech makes a kit that sells on jeffs bronco graveyard. I have spent time over on fullsize bronco.com. They have a lot of info on sas. Everyone over there seems to think that the fabtech kit is overpriced junk. I don't know. It is suppose to be bolt on.

 

Guess I've never looked into them. Well really I've never looked into any of it, I'm just trying to stick my feelers out there, get a idea of the scene.

 

Here is a link to the kit on jbg. Shipped it will be around 2k.

http://broncograveyard.com/bronco/i-...o_f150_4wd.htm

 

Ouch, thats a pretty penny for what youre really getting.

 

I know. Thats why I am still researching. Any welding I will have to get some one else to do it. I don't trust my welding on something like that.

 

Chrono,
buy the wedges from jbg and swap the rest over from your D44. No need to make anything else. The wedges will allow you to use the factory D44 setup. I think the only other thing needed to fab on the 60 is a track bar stud. IIRC coil springs on 73-79 F150/broncos are spread wider so the casting in the pumpkin isnt a problem. Infact thats why the 78-79 D60s are so desireable. The driver side axle tube is the longest therefore easiest to do this swap.

 

What about my 88 F150. I would have to use arms off of a 79 right?

 

rbloodhound,
Im not sure but I think so.

 

Ah ok, I was under the impression that doing a 60 swap on something like mine caused conflictions with the cast mount. All makes sense now. another reason

 

stupid spread it around crap....

 

I did the 60 front and coil spring radius arm setup, check out my gallery for pics.

 

ha it sucks doesnt it. I could really use 2 more rep points but........oh well.


One more thing. Please dont cut the wedges off your D44. Many people do but IMHO its not worth the time needed to do it right. The wedges are cheap by comparison.