Solid Axle Swap
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lol if you plan to use the 4WD on the road yeah you should change out the gears...now offroad doesent reallly matter but the closer the ratios the better...now if you got like 4:56" in the front and 3.05"s in the rear your gonna have some major probs even offroad...but deff alot better making the ratios the same front and rear...and while ur at it if you got the cash get a locker too
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I hope you are not going to try to do the swap yourself, because if you gotta ask if the gear ratios have to be the same or not, you sir, are NOT prepared for this undertaking. But if you do, take a lot of pics, especially of all the custom fabrication work that is needed. I can cut & weld with the best of 'em and if I had something to go by, I'd love to have a solid front axle again...
By the way, if the axle ratios are off by more than about 2%, and you hit 4wd, you'll have to send the flatbed back for the diffs & transfer case off the road after they winch your truck on...
By the way, if the axle ratios are off by more than about 2%, and you hit 4wd, you'll have to send the flatbed back for the diffs & transfer case off the road after they winch your truck on...
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well, i would probably try to find a dana 44. cheaper stuff, and the 60 is way overkill for the truck. unless you are going for a 60 in the rear to, and i think most of the 60's had really high ratios, even if you do have the 3.92 in the rear, you are gonna break stuff if you dont have the same ratio, and if you do get a 60, it will be the rear end, so prepare to drive home in 4-hi without a rear drive shaft.
PS, hammer +1 thats a rookie question if you are gonna do this yourself.
PS, hammer +1 thats a rookie question if you are gonna do this yourself.
Last edited by manogmin; 01-12-2009 at 09:59 PM.
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I hope you are not going to try to do the swap yourself, because if you gotta ask if the gear ratios have to be the same or not, you sir, are NOT prepared for this undertaking. But if you do, take a lot of pics, especially of all the custom fabrication work that is needed. I can cut & weld with the best of 'em and if I had something to go by, I'd love to have a solid front axle again...
By the way, if the axle ratios are off by more than about 2%, and you hit 4wd, you'll have to send the flatbed back for the diffs & transfer case off the road after they winch your truck on...
By the way, if the axle ratios are off by more than about 2%, and you hit 4wd, you'll have to send the flatbed back for the diffs & transfer case off the road after they winch your truck on...
+2 lol get that flat bed ready ROFL...
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i know a guy (this is a strictly mud slingin truck) it was a ford with a 9" out back and a dana 44 up front he had 3:56 gears in back and 3:73 gears up front and it ran fine, it just took some reversing and such to get it back out of 4wd but to this day truck still runs been like that for about a 2 years