Yea, im looking for a 1976 or 77 front dana 44 out of a F-150, anyone know a good place to find one? or does anyone happen to have one they could part with?

 

I don't have one but aren't 78/79 the same? I don't know just asking but I have a 1977 and I don't see how its different than 78/79.

 

The best Dana 44's are the 1976-1977 units with 297x u-joints, disc brakes and weld on radius arm mounting brackets (wedgies) that can be cut off. These should all be reverse cut high pinion units. The 1978-1979 units are just as good as long as you want to retain the factory style radius arms. The axle tubes are pressed in to a casting for the radius arms and do not go all the way through it. This means you can't just cut the mounts off like you can on the previous year axles. It is possible to shorten these axles for use with radius arms though. For more information click HERE. If you wanted to use the 1978-1979 Dana 44 for a leaf spring or link suspension setup, you would have to completely rebuild the housing with new tubes.

--ranger station

basically the wedges for the radius arms cant be removed from the 78-79 without without retubing both side of the axle where as on the 76-77 the wedges can be simply cut/ground off.