straight axle conversion question
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straight axle conversion question
ok on my 92 f150 4x4 im puttin the straight axle conversion up front. i'm going with a DANA 44 out of a 78 bronco. my question is this: can i retain the automatic locking hubs? is this possible? i love this feature about my old truck and hate to lose it but the twin i beams gotta go.
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yeah i did but the guy that is going to put the straight axle on is going to fabricate some parts to make my lift work. i'm just so unhappy with the ttb because it has proven to be so hard to align. it's ready to go now but i've been told that the ttb is weak when it comes to putting it into muddy situations and i wanna get it dirty eventually.
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why would you want auto hubs for mudding anyways?? when you are in a tough situation, the autos can fail. i go manual all the way. ive had autos fail on me before, and i literally could have died because of it. (long story) when i put my rigs in fourwheel, its because i need fourwheel. not to move aways before they lock in, IF they lock. stick to the manuals, you will eventually find out that the autos arent what you think they are...
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i've been told that but the problem is that my wheels are brand new. five lug. d60 carries eight lug. i can't afford to by new wheels. other wise i would get axles out of a 78 f250 4x4 with the d44hd and the d60 rear. the only reason i would like to keep the auto's is that i would have to cut a hole in the floor to put the stick in for the manual and plus the type of wheelin i will be doing is at a mud park here in my home town. not anything really hard just the occasional mud ride. i want my truck to last, not just long enough to where i got to work on it all week to drive it on the weekend. plus i still got a long way to go. new axles, driveshafts, u joints, engine overhaul (it's got 300,000 miles on it), and a few other things so for a long time this truck will not see much action, probably for the next year. once i get it where i want it, then i'm gonna start testing it's limits.
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I'm no mechanic, but why would you have to cut a hole in the floor and add a stick to change the hubs to manuals?
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He wont have to...the hubs have nothing to do with how the transfer case is engaged. (push button or lever makes no difference) One of the best things I did to my truck was get rid of those auto hubs.
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well that's good then, i thought that if i took the automatic hubs off the push button would not work. guess i was wrong, in that case i'm not so aprehensive about changing over to the manual hubs.
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there you go man. lol. my explorer has an electric transfer case, and manual hubs. they have nothing to do with how each other operates. by the way, switching to manual hubs, is about $100. also, for your axle options, i would put the dana 60 in, and just swap the spindles. everything from the u-joint in can stay dana 60, from the u-joint out, dana 44.
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there you go man. lol. my explorer has an electric transfer case, and manual hubs. they have nothing to do with how each other operates. by the way, switching to manual hubs, is about $100. also, for your axle options, i would put the dana 60 in, and just swap the spindles. everything from the u-joint in can stay dana 60, from the u-joint out, dana 44.
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well, i KNOW that currie makes a ford nine inch with one-ton axles and bearings, and as for the swap up-front, i THINK you can change the knuckles and make it a dana 44 hub and spindle on the dana 60, so that the innards of it are still good and beefy.
