D35 drive flanges?

[Roger]

Does anyone make or offer drive flanges to replace the autohubs and manual locking hubs for the D35?

I'm asking because I'm going to swap my Ranger's locking hubs into the replacement Explorer with one dead autohub. As for the flanges? A couple choices. I might be getting a B2 with a D28 for a trail toy. Rip the D28 out and slip in the Ranger's D35 (since the Ranger is going SAS). Or throw a couple in as trail repair parts to get off the trails.

Just curious.

 

[np24]

I'm not quite sure what your looking to do.

Did you want to put manual hubs on an axle that has auto hubs?
or
Did you want to do away with the locking hubs all together?

The manuals will swap right over, d35 to d35, but you have to use the lock nuts for the manual.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Did you want to do away with the locking hubs all together?

That is what I read it as, kind of a neat concept for trail rig without a front locker.

 

[UrbanRedneckKid]

No, nobody makes drive flanges for the d35.

But... you could draw one up, have it machined. Patent it, and sell it. Though expensive at first, you make money when they started selling.

 

[Evan]

No, nobody makes drive flanges for the d35.

But... you could draw one up, have it machined. Patent it, and sell it. Though expensive at first, you make money when they started selling.

I don't know if anybody would buy them...

 

[UrbanRedneckKid]

I would've before I went with the D44. I went through 6 sets of Warns with my D35

 

[Will]

I would've bought flanges if they had been made. I leave mine locked in all the time anyway. I don't know what having a front locker has to do with it. 7 years of having the front locked and I think I can remember twice where I noticed it in 2wd give an odd shake or something. There's no reason except wear and gas mileage unless you have welded up the front.

 

[Roger]

Bingo, eliminate the auto and manual hubs (since the autos on the EX are dead, I want to put the Warns on the EX. The flanges would be a neat thing for a trail ring with the D35. I'm looking at a B2 ti swap the d28 for the D35... Don't want to buy another Warn set.

Well then. I used to work where I could have machined my own. Even heat threat...

 

[Sasquatch_Ryda]

I would've before I went with the D44. I went through 6 sets of Warns with my D35

Obviously not the warn 'jeep' hubs.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

I would've bought flanges if they had been made. I leave mine locked in all the time anyway. I don't know what having a front locker has to do with it. 7 years of having the front locked and I think I can remember twice where I noticed it in 2wd give an odd shake or something. There's no reason except wear and gas mileage unless you have welded up the front.

I was thinking tight turns would bind things up and decrease the turning radius.

 

[4x4junkie]

Yeah, the Jeep hubs rarely break.

I would think there would be some demand for drive flanges though, as it still seems not everyone knows about the Jeep hubs (or has a need for hubs that disengage). They'd be cheaper to produce as well.

You probably could make drive flanges yourself out of some ¼" steel, some 2½" (or whatever size needed) pipe or tube, and a couple of old D30 or D35 diff side gears. Weld the side gears to the pipe, then weld the pipe to a flange made from the ¼" steel. I s'pose you'll have to figure out a way to seal the end where the shaft would stick through though.

 

[Will]

I was thinking tight turns would bind things up and decrease the turning radius.

I'm not getting you. Bind things up with the hubs locked in 2wd? Or were you talking about a welded front?

 

[Shran]

Didn't I see somewhere recently that you can use D44 TTB spindles and stuff so that you end up with D44 hubs? They do make drive flanges for those...would be an option anyway. Probably not a good one though since you'd have a different lug pattern.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

I'm not getting you. Bind things up with the hubs locked in 2wd? Or were you talking about a welded front?

Yeah, welded front.

 

[Roger]

I got wheels in both patterns, but want only one. I might look at that thought Junkie...