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So ive got a 1976 ford f250, np203 transfer case. First picture is my passenger side of front hub, second picture is of my driver side front hub. The truck was like this when i bought it. Anyone have an inkling as to why someone would do this? What purpose? As well as what troubles might be getting into trying to carefully cut that off and put an actual hub on?
NP203 is a full-time transfer case. With full-time 4WD there's no point in having unlocking hubs, so your truck would gave come with both sides having a drive flange like you have on the driver's side.
One question is why someone would put a locking hub on a truck with full time 4WD. But of course the other question is why they welded the remaining drive flange on. That's clearly a butcher job. You can't even grease the wheel bearings like that.
Chances are the threads for bolting the drive flange on got screwed up somehow and that was the bubba fix to keep it on the road. So chances are the hub was junk even before the drive flange was welded on. That's not all bad news though, it just means you don't have to be careful to not damage the hub when you cut the flange off because you're going to have to replace it anyway. And you'll probably get chips and crud in the bearings, so plan on replacing them too.
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