picked up the axles today and got about what I expected.
threw in some 16.5 AL rims with 33 mud dawgs-good for rollers.
Converted the unit bearings to warn hubs
Had a fabricator friend build a "high steering arm"-just a drop pitman welded in with 3/4" and 1/2" plate. It's burned in there pretty seriously, I may consider using it.
That's all the pictures that I could get before it started downpouring. He swapped out the stock covers for some really thin chrome ones, so I'll be in the market for some stock ones to plate with 1/4". True to his word they're 5.38's front and rear. The front still has the grease paint on the teeth with an Auburn locker. The rear has a full Detroit, but what he didn't say was he had already blown up a set of gears in the rear with a shaft.Either way, the gears look ok, not great. The pinion looks fine, but the very outer part of the ring gears teeth have some pitting, not sure if it was from the shaft he blew up or what, but either way I'll be taking it apart, checking all bearings and running patterns front and rear. The carrier bearings felt tight and the backlash was also .06, so it can't be that bad. The one thing I'm a little concerned with is the spring pad on the driver's side is right were I need to put my radius arm wedge:
I'm not sure what and how much of the housing I can cut off before I have an issue. We'll see. Either way I feel that I got a pretty good deal. I ran a list of everything he had put in it, not including the price of the axles themselves, and he had over $2300 invested. I got everything for $1500, plus he drove to within and hour of me. Build up 2 starting in Dec. . .