finaly got an XJ 99 limited with some stuff

[kastein]

Weld it in I guess... or new axle housing. Or weld a new knuckle onto the housing. Since you're looking at building custom axles I'd put a couple tack welds on the balljoint to hold it in place and kick the axle build plans into high gear.

 

[Jlanesey]

My buddy has a tdi golf for sale

 

[sardo_67]

My buddy has a tdi golf for sale

 

[Jlanesey]

Only 280k on the clock

 

[Outlander560]

had that problem on my 2nd d30.....welded the balljoints didn't like that idea to much..

 

[clean4drxj]

Tack weld it..

 

[sardo_67]

Well..... Tac weld them in, get a D60.

Turns out my Jetta tranny uhh doesn't work anymore so I'll have to get that all done before I get back to this toilet.

 

[Jlanesey]

Do you need a welder?

 

[sardo_67]

Do you need a welder?

nah, i have that idiot-savant barefoot engineer guy who does my welding.
thanks though.

hopefully a motor soon. time is running out.

 

[Jlanesey]

Bring her down to Albert brothers, you can use the 300 they will give you for it for a down payment on mine.

 

[sardo_67]

Well got a LOT done this weekend.
Brought the 4.0 to the shop, checked it.... Like everything is bad hahah.
2 bent rods, 2 five over pistons, bad crank, so I guess stroker????

Cleaned up some of the head and re-did the valves, polished them up while I was there.

Sunday is axle prep day it seems, stripped a D44 out of a bronco. Weird ass knuckles, can I use this in my jeep?

And another D30 HP with some odd ball knuckles as well.

Also Alex22 now with 100% more foot coverage.

D44 in the back.

What are these off of?

 

[kastein]

I am reasonably certain that is a cast-wedge d44 (aka useless unless you want to use the ford radius arms or retube it) and those appear to be RENIX era XJ/YJ/MJ d30 knuckles. The control arm mounts and perches make it an XJ/MJ d30.

 

[Begster]

One of the most useless D44 fronts, both because it is cast wedges and because it is from a bronco.

 

[sardo_67]

Aside from the wedge thing why is the bronco one the worst?

 

[rmx250cfl]

wrong width I believe

 

[rweaver138]

Pretty sure its low pinion too. One of the lesser desirable front 44s

 

[sardo_67]

looks like an HP housing

wider than the D30 and my rear is being built to be 62/62.5 WMS. i'll be taking these cast inner C wedge contraptions off then not sure but something that doesn't suck like these. haha. only going to have $150 into the housing and everything minus the inners so i don't think it's too bad a deal.

the D44 is on the back burner for now anyway, that 30 is going in there soon and hopefully next weekend i'll have the bracket kit ready to go.

 

[kastein]

That's the problem - the axle tube doesn't go through the cast wedges, it's a separate piece on either side. If you cut the cast wedges off your axle housing ends up in 3 pieces.

 

[sardo_67]

so the tubes only go into the wedges an inch or so?

 

[kastein]

Yup. Pics about 3/4 of the way down the page: http://77cj.littlekeylime.com/Dana44.htm

supposedly the tubes are only like 1/4 wall also.