Yeah I am leaning towards leaf springs myself. I believe you get more possible articulation from the 4/5 link setups, but are a bit more tricky to fab up. Also in the pic of the across motor mount for the5 link setup, I think that its solid in place, which would suck for any mojor motor work one would want to do. I wouldhate to try a intake manifold swap with that in the way.
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Leaf sounds the best, thats the way I would go, it's almost the same as the rear suspension, which will make it rule! lol.
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5.9 magnum ---------------- Dana 60 Swap in Progress! ------ Shift Kit -------- straight piped exhaust, with no Cat ------- Clear Lights ----------------- Accel Super Stock Coil Wires ----- K & N Drop in Filter -------- Soon to be sitting on 38's with 5.38 gears!
i dont know why it wouldnt be you just need to be able to cut and weld i've done some research on the sas since you people's replies i found a good link for some ideas on the gen 2 it has somegood pictures for brackets and shows a chunk of the stuff that needs to be removed http://www.4x4wire.com/feature/99dakota/solidaxleswap/
i want something more workable offroad and this looks like a decent thing to do...i wont be able to fab that stuff myself but i can save money like no tommorrow
I am just thinking about doing something like this if my truck decides to not sell. If I don't sell it. I want to do a v8 swap and a SAS like the one above. i can probably pick up the parts for about 500 bucks (just the axles) How hard would it be to rebuild the axles, and weld them up? I can probably do the welding myself but not sure if I can do it myself. I am not a very good welder but I can do it. How strong does the welds need to be? Probably best to bring the welding to someone else, but how do you do the hub conversion to hold the 8 prong? They did this in the above topic.
I would have a pretty sweet truck if I did this. I am hoping to maybe do this. I can buy a running one for 2k, so that means I can probably get just the axles cheap. Dana 60 and dana 44
I will do the leaf spring not the 3/4 link.
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5.9 magnum ---------------- Dana 60 Swap in Progress! ------ Shift Kit -------- straight piped exhaust, with no Cat ------- Clear Lights ----------------- Accel Super Stock Coil Wires ----- K & N Drop in Filter -------- Soon to be sitting on 38's with 5.38 gears!
RE: front end conversion
