Evenglass

That's exactly my plan. I'm going to cut the pumpkin side of the spring perches so everything is rotated and correctly positioned, sway mounts, track bar mount, spring buckets. I believe I have bent inner C's now. I plan on measuring, cutting the tubes off inside of the spring buckets, cutting the tubes off my disconnect axle housing ahead of the cast in portion placing these on the non-disconnect housing and weld in. Basically I should be able to turn to not so good axles into one better one with correct angles. Picked up Wj knuckles and Akebono brakes yesterday for $40 so thats going to happen too.

Atmos

I doubt your C's are bent unless you've been jumping it. Either way it's a better plan than actually cutting and turning your C's (too much grinding for my lazy butt). Running those inner sleeves like a jig would make it practically idiot proof. If you plan to wheel this rig hard you should really be adding a beefy track bar bracket (wouldn't you have to anyway with the WJ knuckles?), upper control arm mount, and lower control arm mounts, and possibly a truss. All that factory stuff will bend easily under stress


anyway sounds like a fun project man post pics when you're done

bad_idea

How tight of a fit are the sleeves? If there is ANY slop between the sleeve and the axle tube, you should likely use a alignment bar to keep the axle straight. I commend you on taking on the task. I follow your logic. More headache than I wanted to deal with.

Evenglass

They are the full length of the axle tube and are machine fit. Requires lots of big sledgehammer work.

Atmos

here's a video of someone doing an installation of the sleeves. Not a bad deal for $130. People chop/rotate/extend tubes using sleeve/slugs all the time its very common

Evenglass

Yep. Here'sa D60 narrowed we just did.

Atmos

is that going to be for a rear engine car or something?

Atmos

ah wait the pinion would be turning the wrong direction. rear steer car? Why is the diff centered

Evenglass

Forestry swamp buggy for the everglades.

andrewmp6

You going fully hydro steering front and back im guessing ?

bad_idea

I didn't know that. Learn something new every day. Would you still need to use an alignment bar?

Evenglass

Not if your tubes aren't bent.

Evenglass

So it begins with a D30 HP from a 96' xj.

Evenglass

Carefully measure mark and cut the axle tubes making sure to leave enough on the short side to weld to later.

Evenglass

You will need to remove the lower control arm mounts to cut in the proper location, a good time to upgrade these weak pieces.