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Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 3:34 pm
by SAS H3T
LiftedAWDAstro wrote:
My next design will have the fron converted to a 3 or 4 link with either coils and shocks or coilovers ($$). I think for about $1k the front can be slung with coils, shocks and a link type suspension. I am very seriously considering getting an AWD subframe, another D44 solid axle and doing the conversion. Then I would sell the subframe with axle, but I would make templates or drawings of all the brackets so I could do more swaps. I know there could be a few sold that way but I don't know if the time to fabricate would pay off in the end.
Dean, you need to come out here and see this one. It looks like a factory effort. (even if I do say so myself.)
I used radius arms and Explorer towers with 1979 Ford F-150 Coils. We used another fabrication to extend the radius arms back to the stock crossmember's torsion bar holes and modified them.
I won't share the idea with many....(for patent reasons), but I would share it with you. It'll work out much cheaper than the 4 link, and just as snazzy, too.
There are manufacturers who now make a conversion radius arm kit for the Dana 60, too. It is two pieces. One welds directly to the axle tubes on each side of the truck, and the second part is a bolt-in piece, using bushings at the top and bottom where it meets the first piece, and a heim joint and bracket at the crossmember. If you loosen/remove the top bolt on the driver's side, you get mad flex. It's a dirivitive? of the "wristed" design.
I'll be fabricating my own bastard edition this winter for my new Super Duty front axle.
Re: Solid Axle Swap into a 1998 Astro AWD
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 8:02 am
by LiftedAWDAstro
Just wanted to throw in a couple recent pics as I picked up set of 34 x 10.5 R16 Super Swamper TSL's and got them installed!
Re: Solid Axle Swap into a 1998 Astro AWD
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 8:13 am
by peter
You're sick!
Re: Solid Axle Swap into a 1998 Astro AWD
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 10:04 am
by LiftedAWDAstro
Yes I am!
Re: Solid Axle Swap into a 1998 Astro AWD
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 11:24 am
by potskie
Swamper TSLs WOOT WOOT.
Re: Solid Axle Swap into a 1998 Astro AWD
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 11:44 am
by Cobra
i'm a little jealous of you lifted....
Re: Solid Axle Swap into a 1998 Astro AWD
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 3:28 pm
by peter
Yeah, well...he's got his crosses to bear as well, pally. He is, after all, married to Lynne. They say that when you do something crappy in your life, you pay for it in the next life. Deano musta been a mass murderer
Re: Solid Axle Swap into a 1998 Astro AWD
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 3:35 pm
by BLAZER
peter wrote:Yeah, well...he's got his crosses to bear as well, pally. He is, after all, married to Lynne. They say that when you do something crappy in your life, you pay for it in the next life. Deano musta been a mass murderer
Something I actually agree with Peter on
#-o
Tires look good, need some wheel though, but I guess those are winter beaters. Those off a military vehicle? they seem to always have those tall,skinny tires
Re: Solid Axle Swap into a 1998 Astro AWD
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 4:13 pm
by Fire Cakes
BLAZER wrote:peter wrote:Yeah, well...he's got his crosses to bear as well, pally. He is, after all, married to Lynne. They say that when you do something crappy in your life, you pay for it in the next life. Deano musta been a mass murderer
Something I actually agree with Peter on
#-o
Tires look good, need some wheel though, but I guess those are winter beaters. Those off a military vehicle? they seem to always have those tall,skinny tires
What in the heck did you do in your previous life Peter? Were you a prostitute wanna be so you are making up for it in this life?
Re: Solid Axle Swap into a 1998 Astro AWD
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 4:17 pm
by peter
You're kidding, right? That's it? That's the comeback. Fer cryin' out loud Lynne, that's pitiful...
But, I suppose I deserve it. After all, I haven't yet addressed you in NECO yet. Let's get workin' on that this weekend, then
Re: Solid Axle Swap into a 1998 Astro AWD
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 4:22 pm
by Fire Cakes
peter wrote:You're kidding, right? That's it? That's the comeback. Fer cryin' out loud Lynne, that's pitiful...
But, I suppose I deserve it. After all, I haven't yet addressed you in NECO yet. Let's get workin' on that this weekend, then
Hey it has been a long week and you know I have to have a comeback. I can't let these things sit idle.
oh BTW Deano will agree with me....................I am the best that that happened to him. He would definitely be lost with out me.
Re: Solid Axle Swap into a 1998 Astro AWD
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 4:25 pm
by potskie
Fire Cakes wrote:peter wrote:You're kidding, right? That's it? That's the comeback. Fer cryin' out loud Lynne, that's pitiful...
But, I suppose I deserve it. After all, I haven't yet addressed you in NECO yet. Let's get workin' on that this weekend, then
Hey it has been a long week and you know I have to have a comeback. I can't let these things sit idle.
oh BTW Deano will agree with me....................I am the best that that happened to him. He would definitely be lost with out me.
Of course he would be. All men are lost without women. Seriously. Men wouldn't know what to do with all their hard earned cash and all that free time if women weren't around!
Re: Solid Axle Swap into a 1998 Astro AWD
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 4:26 pm
by Fire Cakes
potskie wrote:Fire Cakes wrote:peter wrote:You're kidding, right? That's it? That's the comeback. Fer cryin' out loud Lynne, that's pitiful...
But, I suppose I deserve it. After all, I haven't yet addressed you in NECO yet. Let's get workin' on that this weekend, then
Hey it has been a long week and you know I have to have a comeback. I can't let these things sit idle.
oh BTW Deano will agree with me....................I am the best that that happened to him. He would definitely be lost with out me.
Of course he would be. All men are lost without women. Seriously. Men wouldn't know what to do with all their hard earned cash and all that free time if women weren't around!
No lost in that sense you silliy.................Men we have to spell everything out for you.
Re: Solid Axle Swap into a 1998 Astro AWD
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 4:32 pm
by potskie
Fire Cakes wrote:Men we have to spell everything out for you.
Nope! you just feel you do because you don't understand male code. Remember we can communicate all with just a nod of the head!
Re: Solid Axle Swap into a 1998 Astro AWD
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 4:33 pm
by Fire Cakes
potskie wrote:Fire Cakes wrote:Men we have to spell everything out for you.
Nope! you just feel you do because you don't understand male code. Remember we can communicate all with just a nod of the head!