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This is the "relative angle" of the
front drive shaft as the heep sets now
wanted to have a reference to see how she changes as we
proceed forward.
since we are going from a reverse rotation to standard
rotation front
and the front shaft will get shorter we should incur more
driveline
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Start
with a D44 out of a 1976 Ford F250
cut the outer C's off, grind or cut the tube to length
(length being determined by the wagoneer axle that give us
the doner shafts)You can see
the beginnings of the perchs here. Started with 2.5" X
2.5" square tube
shave off the bottom drill the holes in the top and mark for
tube cuts.
one thing that I wanted to insure was the front and rear all
springs set the
same height above center of the axle housings. Took
some measurments and
used a Cad program to create some card stock templates the
cut and grind. |
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You can see what is the drivers side.
There was a factory cast perch here.
because the YJ has a 30.75" spring mounting width as
compared to the fords 32" and
the fact that the wagonner shaft on this side was shorter
relative to the distance taken off
of the passenger side the factory perch needed to be ground
off and a new one built.On
top of all those reasons I did not want to use wedges to set
the pinon angle so I would
have ground this perch anyway.
certainly would have been easier to
just order custom shafts but this way you can
junk yard for parts. |
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Another
shot of the DS of the assembly |
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and from the front
Ok so it's not the front be nice to
me!
from the rear!
sounds better the other way. |
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We slid
the D44 under the heep and set the "relative" angle on the
diff
leaving the pinon down about 1 degree to allow for rotation
under power.
the plan is to move to a CV drive shaft on the front so we
simply pointed it at the
TC output and wala
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