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Doing a Dana 35 TTb swap into the Bronco II. I have the Axle beams all installed and the differential has 5.13 gears and a lunchbox locker similar to an Aussie locker or lockrite (believe it's a lockrite. Putting the passenger side axle into shaft into the pumpkin and the internal spring will no compress fully. Took the spring out and the axle barely goes all the way into the suspension arm for the spindle. The TTB arms are from a Explorer and the diff pumkin i believe is from a ranger. Was wondering if the explorer and ranger TTb axles are the same length. Any thoughts or advice much appreciated. I do have a lift on the Bronco II and my coworker and I are afraid that the axle might push to hard inside the pumpkin and may damage the carrier or something else.
 


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Any way to get pics?

DS shaft go in ok?
 

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axle shaft goes in the diff fine, but the slip yoke part of the axle when installing is all the way in and the spring is not installed. once the spring was put in it would not go all the way in and could not get the spindle on. I'll try to post some pics soon.
 

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Spring being the C clip eliminator spring?
 

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That is correct. I was using the Yukon internal one and with it installed the axle would not push in far enough to allow the spindle to go in and even with no spring it still is pushed far out and we're afraid it might push into the carrier or the locrite locker too hard
 

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You have to host them somewhere like Flikr and remote link them to here.
 

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I'll do the external spring and see how that works.
 

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The kit should have came with 2 springs. The smaller of the 2 is the one you want to use.
 

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In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are different.
I used the weedeater spring. It was a tight fit on the shaft. But with some persuasion, it does go on there. There's a picture in my build thread

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You will have to kind of force it to get the spindle back on
 

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You will have to kind of force it to get the spindle back on
Been awhile since I've had a chance to work on the truck. So got the external spring on the axle shaft the axle splines itself and while in the air bottoms out pretty easily and seems like at ride height it will bottom inside the differential itself. The only thing is the differential has 5.13 and a lockrite inside it and don't know why it feels it will be this difficult to get the splines to operate without excessive force.
 

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With the suspension at (or close to) ride height (supported under the front beams on stands, etc.), the spring should be such that it starts to provide resistance about 3/8 inch or so before the spindle is seated down all the way. If the suspension is hanging at full-droop (truck is supported by frame), there may still be a chance you won't be able to push the axle in all the way, so you might have to get the truck down onto some stands or blocks under the beams (or jack the beams themselves up) to get it to go in all the way.
 
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