Just finished this up the other night. I moved up to 35's last year and my 4.10 gearing hasn't been cutting it. Since I needed to regear anyway I picked up a 8.8 as a good excuse to upgrade from my dana 35.
Out of a Eddie Baur, it was supposed to be 4.10 posi but was 3.73??
Sandblasted, tubes welded, new perches on.
1.25" tube bent for the truss.
Filler plate dimple died and welded.
Pinion guard.
At this point I decided to add a traction bar after finding bent leaf springs. I was going to build one but it was cheaper to buy a M.O.R.E. bar. It came with everything except a cross member so I used a couple pieces of 1.5 square tubing and built this.
I used that Rustolem Hammered paint in Silver and black to paint everything. That stuff is the shit! Reduce it a little with Xylol and spray it with a 1.8 tip, works nice.
Out of a Eddie Baur, it was supposed to be 4.10 posi but was 3.73??
Sandblasted, tubes welded, new perches on.
1.25" tube bent for the truss.
Filler plate dimple died and welded.
Pinion guard.
At this point I decided to add a traction bar after finding bent leaf springs. I was going to build one but it was cheaper to buy a M.O.R.E. bar. It came with everything except a cross member so I used a couple pieces of 1.5 square tubing and built this.
I used that Rustolem Hammered paint in Silver and black to paint everything. That stuff is the shit! Reduce it a little with Xylol and spray it with a 1.8 tip, works nice.