93beater

So here is the skinny, i have a 93 xj witj stock gears, 3.55? I plan on lifting it but being that its my dd and im cheap/broke im trying to do it in stages. First problem is tge gear ratio. I pulled a dana 30 out of a 86 xj with stock 4.10 gears and i plan on pullin a 8.8 with 4.10s out of an exploder cuz i cant afford to pay someone to regear my axles and i wouldn't dump any money into my d35. I bought 2 sets of g2 balljoints for 80 bucks off of cl and am lookin at doing hubs assembly as well. My question is can i pull the knuckles, rotors etc off my 93 and put them on my 86 axle and then just go buy 93 hub assemblies? I plan on pulling the inner shaft off of it as well and doing the seal and plate kit from rustys to get rid of the cad system. I would stick with the stocl knucles but dont want to buy new rotors calipers and pads for the 86 when the 93s are new.

skife

Yes, also, this belongs in stock cherokee tech.

93beater

Sorry and thank you

cruiser54

It's fine right here.

You're gonna want to delete the cAD though. Easily done in 20 minutes.

https://www.cherokeeforum.com/f51/fr...ss-91-a-38629/

93beater

Yup crustys cad delete kit is in the mail. Also i have been looking at axle tube seals, i know they wont work with the cad system but is that because of the axle shaft itself or is it due to the axle tube? Im in the pac nw so lots of rain and mud.

jedijeb

Probably because the splined end of the CAD shaft is larger than the end that goes into the carrier. To slide the seals on the CAD shaft you would need holes larger than the shaft itself and it would not seal. For the CAD shaft they would need to manufacture a two piece unit that bolted together over the shaft.

93beater

Sweet so i should be good with the solid axle from my 93 going into the cad side axle tube. I was assuming so but didnt want to blow 40 or 50 on seals to find out they did something funny to the axle tube (besides the whole damn cad system that is) thanks.

EvstaG

Yep, you only have to replace the passenger side diff seal, might as well do them both while you've got it all apart obviously.

Also, might be worth looking at getting axle shafts from a newer Cherokee and using the 93 shafts as spares if you wheel, as your's will still have the 260x joints, while newer axle shafts take the stronger 760x joints.

cruiser54

The seals go in 2 different places.
CAD goes just outboard of that unit.
Non-CAD goes just outboard of the diff......