alaskan
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- Austin, TX
My friend recently purchased a '91 Ranger with manual hubs on a D35 TTB that needed a brake job in a serious way. To make a long story short, the spindle was hosed and we ended up replacing that along with the inner/outer wheel bearings and the spindle lock nuts.
The similarities to the D30 setup are amazing. The wheel bolt pattern is the same the rotors are within 0.08" in radius, they both use 297x u-joints between the inner axle and stub shaft, both 27 spline and roughly the same length (from what I can tell) on the stub shaft.
I researched and there are a few threads on this, but none with any follow through that I can see. It appears to me that you could drill a Ford spindle for the three-bolt pattern on the Jeep knuckle and build everything out from there with the Ford parts. The XJ brake caliper could require some spacing and the XJ knuckle might need to be machined for the slightly larger bore of the Ford spindle.
Anyway, the Ford parts are as common as house flies in the junkyard because the 2WD ford spindles are the same as the 4WD spindles and they're on both Explorers and Rangers.
Has anybody seen this finished up or am I going to be forging new territory? Any gotchas that will make this a non-starter?
The similarities to the D30 setup are amazing. The wheel bolt pattern is the same the rotors are within 0.08" in radius, they both use 297x u-joints between the inner axle and stub shaft, both 27 spline and roughly the same length (from what I can tell) on the stub shaft.
I researched and there are a few threads on this, but none with any follow through that I can see. It appears to me that you could drill a Ford spindle for the three-bolt pattern on the Jeep knuckle and build everything out from there with the Ford parts. The XJ brake caliper could require some spacing and the XJ knuckle might need to be machined for the slightly larger bore of the Ford spindle.
Anyway, the Ford parts are as common as house flies in the junkyard because the 2WD ford spindles are the same as the 4WD spindles and they're on both Explorers and Rangers.
Has anybody seen this finished up or am I going to be forging new territory? Any gotchas that will make this a non-starter?