TJ ton swap

[klungly]

I bought a dana 60 for Baboozle last year for his Willie's project. It didn't work out for him and I bought the as soon as he offered it. I got it home. Took off the drums and brake assembly's. I was doing research on and couldn't find anything that matched. I measured the ring gear and turned out to be 10.5". I found the bill of material number, Googled it, found out it's a dana 70 from an '85 f350. Cleaned the axle of the rust and got a axle swap kit from ruff ruff stuff

 

[klungly]

Was replacing the axle shaft flange bolt and sheared one in the hub due to gauling

 

[BABOOZLE]

Front axle plans yet?


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[Jsouder53]

You don’t stop do you! keep it coming [emoji106]

 

[klungly]

Front axle plans yet?


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Got a few ideas. Either gonna stick with my current 44 and use the 5.13 gear set I have for and get wheel adapters. Or narrow a 60. But with a 60 the coil buckets are 1.5" wider than factory so I'd either have bowed springs or upgrade to kings, and if I put kings up front, gotta put them in the rear too.

 

[klungly]

You don’t stop do you! keep it coming [emoji106]

Can't stop, gotta keep upgrading my rigs. Keeps me from getting bored with them.

 

[klungly]

Got the hubs cleaned and some acid etch primer on them

 

[klungly]

Getting the brackets mocked up to look for interference. Finished painting the hubs

 

[klungly]

Found that I had an upper control arm break off on the front axle. It must have cracked and worked it's way to breaking off. That'll have to get fixed before I move on with the rear swap. I pulled the front axle out and took out the driver side bushing.

 

[klungly]

Got the new bracket welded on and wrapped up in a welding blanket to cool slowly

 

[OldButStillJeeping]

Nice! F350 Dana 70 in a TJ. You'll never break that!

 

[klungly]

Nice! F350 Dana 70 in a TJ. You'll never break that!

Thanks, I still my find a way haha.

 

[klungly]

Got the new bracket from artec. The axle is back in my jeep. Now I can get back to the rear. Picked up a pair of rotors but they don't fit on the hubs, I think machining the hubs would be the best way to get the two to fit together.

 

[klungly]

Picked the pair of rotors ruffstuff uses for their disc brake conversion. They didn't fit on the hubs. Rhe shoulder that the drums seated on was too big. I machined the hubs so the rotors would fit. I chose to machine the hubs so I would only have to machine something once, and not have to machine the rotors every time I changed them, all be it not very often, still.

 

[klungly]

Finished machining the hubs to allow the rotors to fit. Started moching up the new brackets.

 

[klungly]

Made some progress, tacked o. All the brackets and some repairs from going out in the snow. Upgraded my winch to a zeon 10 and had to replace a brake line that I'm pretty sure my tire chains pulled out.

 

[klungly]

My disc brake caliper adapter brackets came today. Got those bolted on. I also ordered a fuel cell kit from motobilt to move the gas tank to behind the rear seat, can't wait for it to get here. I think I'll have to put it in before I start test fitting the new axle, it'll also set me up better for an eventual comp cut.

 

[sm31]

I'm with OBSJ... That is one stout setup you have there!! Thanks for sharing! :beer:

 

[klungly]

I'm with OBSJ... That is one stout setup you have there!! Thanks for sharing! :beer:

Thank you!

 

[klungly]

While I'm waiting for the fuel cell to come in. I picked up a piece of .190" thick 4130 to make a ring gear spacer. I plan on gearing the axles to 5.13. The carrier break is at 4.56 and the current gear set is using the wrong carrier for the gears I want to use. Making the spacer was cheaper than buying a new carrier. It should hold me over until I can get an arb.