typo from the shop, 5.38 front and rear
Axle assembly options
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typo from the shop, 5.38 front and rear
deadbeat son
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He built for 33s front, 35s rear. You may scoff, but that setup is ideal in some parts of the country.
I saw where it said changed to 5.38’s. Wanted to make sure you were aware of it. I’d hate for it to be wrong.
yeah it is. believe me I am well aware. its not a new thing. this place is stupid expensive for everything.
Aside from that how do you like the curries? I'm leaning that direction.
Overall I'm happy, I wish they would have had the 60 option upfront that they do now. I don't like that I had to keep the 30 outers. Now they offer JK/TJ HP60 front and rear.
He’s referring to the weak Dana 30 C-brackets on ends. A great option is to grind them off and weld on Ford brackets for a five bolt setup, manual Warn locking hubs, and set the correct caster for the driveshaft pinion angle.
Not recently, I have in the past summer though and didnt find anything. My thought was possibly replace the axles in the LJ, then put those axles under the TJ. I'm pretty confident at this point that the TJ's rear axle got warped with the original damage form the local shop that 'forgot' to put gear oil back in the rear diff and thats the source of the continual noise and leakage despite a rebuild.
It looks like Fusion has a JK upgrade for a bolt on TJ application. Although they say its at JK width. I wonder if theres any option to shortening them to standard TJ width. It looks like they take advantage of larger JK brakes as well which would be beneficial for a Jeep more geared for camping and exploring with gear.
https://fusion4x4.com/collections/j...axle-assembly-for-jeep-tj-lj-xj-jk-conversion
https://fusion4x4.com/collections/j...axle-assembly-for-jeep-tj-lj-xj-jk-conversion
Nah. only on the "JK upgrade" do they have JK housing and JK outers. But the standard 44's retain factory outer knuckles, brakes, etc.... The upgraded housings are JK width but I need to stick with stock TJ width so unfortunately that doesnt look like it's an option.
With the limitations, I think I would be locating a set of Rubicon axles somewhere. Making a road trip to get them and rent a self storage garage and swap them.
If I found them at a junk yard I would even be inclined to make a deal to hire the yard dudes to do the work and priced based on leaving a good set of resellable axles behind. The entire road trip swap vacation would be thousands less than your quote. Inconvenient, sure. Convenient, moreso than 10k.
If I found them at a junk yard I would even be inclined to make a deal to hire the yard dudes to do the work and priced based on leaving a good set of resellable axles behind. The entire road trip swap vacation would be thousands less than your quote. Inconvenient, sure. Convenient, moreso than 10k.
That would be awesome. With the current situations at work, not an option unless I could find them within a 4 hour distance.
fwiw, I purchased a Pro Rock 44 front housing on Black Friday since something is wrong with my front Rubi housing.
- Stock TJ width
- 3” tubes
- .5” wall thickness.
If all goes well, I’ll be able to re-use my Yukon big hub kit, BMB BBK, Eaton locker, and axle shafts.
- Stock TJ width
- 3” tubes
- .5” wall thickness.
If all goes well, I’ll be able to re-use my Yukon big hub kit, BMB BBK, Eaton locker, and axle shafts.
The axles have already been rebuilt - but they have continuing problems. I'm thinking the housing is warped.
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