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I like the Ifs box alot on my ranger! It has a lot of turn for what it is and it pushes my 38 like nothing!
 
i got my front end out of an 84 cj with a 304 today for 100 bucks including the steering hubs. leaf springs are 20 a side but i have to figure out what ones ill need first. t case is gonna cost me 110 without a core to return and the tranny i got last month cost me 110 :)

That is a passenger side drop axle....You cant run it with a stock tcase, you need to run a passenger side drop tcase which would require a divorced tcase, custom adapter or atlas2. You need a drivers drop axle.
 
You would be much better of using a early bronco D44 with a radius arm setup.
 
yeah i noticed that the diff was wrong when i looked at it the other day. good thing the junkyard has a 30 day no questions asked return policy. returned it all and got a 4.10 geared front end from a 94 wrangler with 60k on it. i wont go radius arm. leaf spring all the way. for me nothing looks more badass on a truck than a solid axle up front with leaf springs. i just need to get the springs figured out now. not sure which ones i should use if i want 6 inches of overall lift. can you use lift blocks in the front? ive never heard of anyone using them so i thought id ask.
 
hopefully ill end up with a level truck with 6 inches of lift and flipped rear shackles. then maybe ill get some 35's. i know people say the 30 is weak but i know several people who run 35's or bigger on stock ones and never had an issue. i wont be running it to hard either. most of my off roading is in limited traction situations like muddy fields and clay. dont really need to worry about over torquing an axle on rocks.
 
Purely hydraulic steering is a big DOT violation and is not legal to drive on the road.

That doesn't mean I wouldn't do it :icon_rofl:

depending on what state its titled in, if its custom built and titled as say a constructed vehicle or whatever provisions are given, use of iso compliant componantry will net a legal setup. no way to argue against such.


whether or not you can afford to insure it, or find a company that will is a whole different deal though
 
Purely hydraulic steering is a big DOT violation and is not legal to drive on the road.

That doesn't mean I wouldn't do it :icon_rofl:

Not sure about your state but illinois has no such law. Most people have this false idea that full hydro isn't safe because there is no mechanical control of steering in the event of hydraulic failure. However hydraulic steering has proven itself so well in industrial and agricultural applications like forklifts, telehandlers, cranes, tractors, combines, spreaders, etc that buses and otr trucks are starting to make the switch. I've logged thousands of miles pulling oversized loads on a full hydraulic steer trailer.
 
Not sure about your state but illinois has no such law. Most people have this false idea that full hydro isn't safe because there is no mechanical control of steering in the event of hydraulic failure. However hydraulic steering has proven itself so well in industrial and agricultural applications like forklifts, telehandlers, cranes, tractors, combines, spreaders, etc that buses and otr trucks are starting to make the switch. I've logged thousands of miles pulling oversized loads on a full hydraulic steer trailer.

Yeah the laws make no sense. A properly setup hydraulic steering system is extremely strong and resistant to failure. Virtually every machine that is used to grade, lift, or handle material has hydraulic steering. Hydraulic is VERY safe 99% of the time.....just think how much overkill and extra safety factors are engineered into say a John Deere 310 SE backhoe with 4500lbs of lifting capacity, or a 26,000lb GradAll forklift with a 45' telescopic boom? THEY HAVE TO BE SAFE to move material up high and many times OVER potentially expensive items or obstacles.

The laws (in my communist state of CA) were written considering hypotheticals.....that is if a hose were to blow, there is now no control of the direction of the vehicle. True. Likely? Not very.

Some uneducated, overpaid, bored stiff, liberal piece of you know what who knows nothing about the mechanical works of machines wrote the law and thought he or she was doing the world a favor :dunno:
 
Good they can do the world another favor and give themselves a good kick in the ass.
 
I know this is pretty outdated but i figure i'd add in that at work we have a new chevy sonic. It has no mechanical connection whatsoever from the steering wheel to the knuckles. It's got a variable effort electric rack, and let me tell you, it feels weird...

Just another example of the misconceptions about the laws related to steering
 
so im going to use the wrangler front end.

if your running leafs, why not pick up a waggy 44? d30's are crap if you plan on using them for anything other than driving on the road. sure dump alot of money into them, and make them into a super 30, but then its still a 1/4ton axle with some mods, and will still break. id say the best thing about it is keeping the bolt pattern, which to me, isnt good enough. if i could do it all over, i would of skipped out on building my 1/2tons and went straight to the tons. save lots of time and money. but, live and learn. my .02

lmao, just read up a few posts, this is old! haha
 
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