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my dana 44 hp swap(pics)


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My shock towers are held with 2 bolts, without any plating behind them. They are also welded to the early bronco coil buckets which have another 3 bolts holding them on.
 


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Looks pretty good. One bolt holding your shock mount on is not sufficient. People have pulled shock towers off the frame with tow bolts holding them on, pulled the bolts right through the frame. You really need two bolts with at least a 3/16" plate for the back side of the frame, that or weld them on.
you can't see in the other pic's but this is how there mounted



 
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Maybe i missed it but what radius arm drops did you use?Could you take a picture?GREAT looking truck.
 

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I like it......:icon_bounceblue:
 

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the radius arm brackets are 79' F-150

here are the final shots from today, all done except gear oil!!

















 

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impressive work! looks really nice
 

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it all looks pretty good, i would plate the outside of the trac bar bracket and get rid of the stock blocks, going to have some major wheel hop.
 

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Is that a stock pitman arm?
 

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and get rid of the stock blocks, going to have some major wheel hop.
stock blocks? do u mean in the rear? the truck has 4" lift springs and 6" of block, we have everything to build antiwrap bars for the rear. we just didnt get to it yet.

Is that a stock pitman arm?
i actually dont know. i bought the truck with a 4" lift. so i really cant tell you if its the stock one or not.
 

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Looks nice, almost to clean to get messy.

I would give your vent hose a little more slack so that when your front does flex, it wont break or come off.

Looks like a stock pitman arm to me.
 

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nice work!

How are you liking 4.56 gears on 35s?
 

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Wooooooow, so clean. At least for a couple days everything will look nice. Haha.
 

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Been driving it around today went for wheel alignment it still very peppy . I'm glad about that it's my dd I didn't want to kill the mileage going to 488's I do some highway driving. Drives pretty good still want to tweek it some more had to have it ready for work monday will see how the week go's
 

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That is looking awesome man!
 

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great minds think alike. my trac bar mount looks almost identical. nice build.

i dont know if if missed it but what kind of springs do you have?
 

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