old_man
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Loveland, Colorado
I'm going to put a Ford HP Dana44 under the front of my XJ. I don't plan to narrow it. The axle I have has the radius mounts that don't have the tube all the way through it.
My question has to do with adding the coil buckets and arm mounts. How have some of you guys done it. It appears that from my initial measurements that if I keep the coil buckets centered under where the original XJ coils were, that the buckets will be half on the axle tube and half on the casting. Is that how you guys mounted yours? Did you weld to the cast? Any problems. Did you fab your own brackets and buckets or did you find a good (cheap) setup somewhere?
I am an experienced fabricator and an engineer by trade, but would rather learn from someone elses mistakes instead of my own.
My question has to do with adding the coil buckets and arm mounts. How have some of you guys done it. It appears that from my initial measurements that if I keep the coil buckets centered under where the original XJ coils were, that the buckets will be half on the axle tube and half on the casting. Is that how you guys mounted yours? Did you weld to the cast? Any problems. Did you fab your own brackets and buckets or did you find a good (cheap) setup somewhere?
I am an experienced fabricator and an engineer by trade, but would rather learn from someone elses mistakes instead of my own.