Episode 52: Junkyard Dana 44 Revival Series - Sneak Peak
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- čas přidán 19. 08. 2023
- Can we take a rusted out Dana 44 High Pinion front axle housing from a 78-79 Ford Bronco/F150 and bring it back from the dead?
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I just watched the episode where you picked up the M226, my first for your channel. You talked about the Titan swap and I was thinking "that is pretty standard". Nice to see you have ponied up to the solid axle swap.
I bought a '77 Ford Dana 44 myself and have just about finished with the front suspension, though I still need to do steering. I went with a JKU box because it fit inside the frame out of the way of the tire and the JKU verses JK has a higher steering ratio (fewer turns lock to lock). I'll be running hydraulic assist anyway so I'd rather have quicker steering. The JKU is more inline with the D40 wheelbase than the JK. The D22 box is an option I looked at, but I decided I wanted something inside the frame rail and the D22 box was too far forward. That's where my sway bar will be.
My axle was similarly rusty and incomplete. I pulled it out of some back woods salvage shop on the NY/PA boarder. You've got an axle with the cast radius are mounts. Are you just planning an running radius arms or are you going to re-tube the axle for a three link?
I was planning on doing some videos of my build as well, but I just haven't been able to compel myself to spend the time taking video.
Long before we had a CZcams channel I SAS'd an '05 Xterra with a driver drop Dodge D44 that had unit bearings with tone rings so that I had a signal to feed to the ECM so it wouldn't lock out the factory electronic transfer case. It had a 3 link with an outside the frame Toy steering box. Not enough room for a sway bar with that package, and as such it left something to be desired on the street. Although it flexed pretty well. The plan with this axle was to run some aftermarket Ford radius arms on the wedges since they're cast.
@@TrashPandaGaragePackaging is a real challenge for 37" tires. The JKU box just bar fits in with the suction AC line bent a bit. I needed to remove the high pressure line from the compressor to the condenser completely and I'll need to make a new one if I want to keep AC. I made some engines mounts from poly bushings because the stock ones were completely shot and they stuck down pretty far and got in the way of where I wanted to upper link bracket on the axle. I just flexed it out yesterday with a tire on and and while I have some fender trimming to do it looks pretty good. I'll probably need to trim the body a bit where it comes down to the mount in front of the tires and plate it closed for clearance.
I got the rear 9" axle as well and I'll make some custom tone rings for it and then build a circuit that uses those signals for rear sensors, and makes copes of those signals for the front. This should prevent ABS problems and still be able to use ABLS in the rear which should work great with the Eaton TruTrac I'll use in the 9". If it doesn't work I'll just get an Atlas. Its something I want anyway because I want a lower low range gear, but I need to draw the line somewhere for now to get this project done.
I'm looking forward to seeing how yours comes out with radius arms.
@@Fix_It_Again_Tony Sounds rad! Looking forward to some videos of your build. Our Frontier has a divorced Atlas in it. There's an old video we posted awhile back where we talk about routing the shifter cables for it, and I think there's a couple shots of the crossmember we had to build for it.
@@TrashPandaGarageThanks. I saw the shifter video. The box you built for the shifter was nice work. I was also looking for a video of the Atlas install.
I've already got the 4WD transmission so I would just get an adapter and put it in place of the stock unit. Divorced was a good idea with the 2WD transmission instead of sourcing the back housing from a 4WD one.
Now that my truck is starting to look like something I'll probably post a few videos.
I've got an Armada/QX80 PS pump that I want to use, has about 25% more displacement than stock. I want to do a video on porting the pump and maybe rebuilding and porting the JKU box. The steering was already slow at idle before I started modifying the truck. Adding an assist ram without addressing the pump would make it terrible.
I'll also do one on suspension geometry and maybe one on modifying the steering knuckle. The JKU box must not have as much throw as the factory Ford box. I tried a longer pitman arm, but it would need to be really long apparently to get even 35°, which is my target. I want to move the drag link attachment point in towards the axle center line to increase the steering angle.
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