My FW 44 B2 Swap

[AZFX4]

Well here it is. I bought this B2 for 150$ about 2 years ago. I would say ive gotten my moneys worth. She was a good little wheeler in stock form but finally decided it was time to UPGRADE!

Heres what she looked like before I got started.

 

[AZFX4]

Here are some pictures from the teardown.

Getting the axle mocked up...

With the modified arms in place...

 

[AZFX4]

Im using a 79 dana 44 from a bronco and adjustable coil mounts from ballistic fab. In order to space out the driver side coil mount I had to build this bracket.

 

[AZFX4]

Here are some pictures showing the mounts mocked up.

 

[59bisquik]

Looking good! Keep us posted!

 

[97TrailRigDD]

Very nice work . I like your extended arms too .

 

[AZFX4]

Heres a few more pics of my progress. Im using Ballistic forged joints for the raduis arms instead of heim joints. Also all of my brackets and fab stuff came from Ballistic. Its nice to have them close by!








For now I just have the stock trac bar cut to a shorter length just to keep everything together. In the future ill build a new one with heim joints. This is about as far as I am right now. Just got done rebuilding my steering box yesterday. Hopefully this weekend Ill get all the welding done and get some paint on everything. Then its on to installing the 4.0 before putting everything back together.

 

[AZFX4]

Not sure what happened to my last set of pictures. Heres a few more of the latest progress.