Steering box to use on a d44 swap?

[cp2295]

Okay gotcha I didn't know the radius arms were that long, I'll have to find out when I get there if my frame is different and hopefully I won't need to worry about that!

 

[redneksoldier]

If you decide to go with the ifs yota steering box, you will want to plate the frame on both sides where the box mounts. You will also want to weld tubes through the frame to reinforce the bolt holes. I went the extra mile and boxed the frame in and added a cross member there.

 

[cp2295]

Why so much reinforcement just for the yota box?

 

[redneksoldier]

Well, if you don't put some tubing through the frame, you will smash it when you tighten the mounting bolts. You don't want your frame smashed flat. The steel is actually really thin and weak. Any frame mounted steering box puts a good amount of stress on the frame especially when turning the wheels while sitting still or up against a rock etc. The reason for the cross member is fo that you don't get any flexibility in that section of the frame. Even just a few millimeters of frame flex can make it drive like crap on the road and make it impossible to align. If the frame does have some flexibility to it, eventually the metal will become fatigued in those areas and cracks will form. A cracked frame is not good either.

 

[PlumCrazy]

From what I have read so far...it seems like the thing you to get out the way before anything else is research. These swaps have been done 9000 times, and you are asking about some basic items, but leaving out key components. Take a few days to read through SAS builds and look a pictures...even the TTB framed trucks will show you basically everything you need to do, besides the steering box and adding coil buckets.

 

[Transmarobirdeater]

I would not dare let a toyota part touch my truck. Keep it ford tuff. I crammed an f350 steering box in mine and its on the inside of the frame. It fit just fine and I have the 4.0 SOHC in my truck. There is no room for shit. I run it of my stock power steering pump. If you have some extra power steering hoses laying around you can hook the lines right up.

 

[cp2295]

nice alright, yeah Ford all the way. i'm still just confused why can't i use a D35 TTB Box? they are plentiful at the junkyard. And what about an F150 box?

 

[PlumCrazy]

They are a pain to mount....

All the TTB Ford trucks and Rangers use the same box from early 80s to 97

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[PlumCrazy]

The older Ford boxes (late 70's) and Yota boxes mount up to the IFS Ranger frames much easier than the TTB Ford boxes that have a curved mating surface.

 

[cp2295]

Oh yeah I remember changing the box on my friends ranger I remember that curve. Okay yeah screw that I'll go yota box. I'm flip floppy haha, unless the older fords boxes are smaller, I just figure a yota box will be smallest.