Ford D44/9" Rear...

[poppatello]

I have a buddy that has a Ford Dana 44 front and 9" rear out of a 78 Bronco. It has 3:55 gears. He wants 800 for the set. Seems high to me. What do you folks think? Good swap if the price were right or waste of time and money. Going to swap in a AMC 304 , T18A, Dana 300 and 4:56 gears someday...

 

[tarry99]

I have a buddy that has a Ford D44 front and 9" rear out of a 78 Bronco. It has 3:55 gears. He wants 800 for the set. Seems high to me. What do you folks think? Good swap if the price were right or waste of time and money. Going to swap in a 304, T18A, D300 and 4:56 gears someday...

The axles may be a little wider than what you have........60" WMS I think and who wants 3.55's? Drums or Disc's?...........Now again depends on what you do with the Jeep ...... The 6:32 low gear in the T-18 with the 3.55's is not the end of the World in Crawl Ratio...........but for some of us it may be.

 

[poppatello]

The axles would be rebuilt with 4:56 gears and disc brakes. So better crawl ratio. Now I don't do much wheeling as the POS Weber won't keep the AMC 150 running. I want to do some mudding, and back woods wheeling with rocks being last...

 

[Hedgehog]

Your going to need more pony's under the hood to do the things you are interested in. You don't have to go with something stupid, just more.....

 

[poppatello]

Got a AMC 304 on an engine stand..m

 

[hondo]

i thought about this swap for awhile to. the 9 inch would work, but as said is wider than the stock cj axle ( Front - 60" Rear - 58") also not sure on leaf spring spacing. the front Dana 44 has the wrong side drop so you would need to go with the ford Transfer Case the easiest would be a Dana 20 it also has coil spring suspension so you would either need to convert to coil springs or figure out how to make it leaf spring not sure how this would be done.

 

[Old Dog]

As Hondo said the front has the pumpkin on the wrong side, not the end of the world but it will take some time and money to make right.
You can either change the tc. as Hondo said or you can retube it.
To me $800 is way more than I would pay. I'm thinking 300/400 tops as you are going to spend a bunch of $ rebuilding them.

 

[poppatello]

I'll just build up my stock axles...

 

[Torxhead]

From what I have seen 35" tires are a bit much for the Dana 30 and model 20 axles. I would suggest not spending a lot of money on the d30 and the model 20 would take a lot of work but can be done. It also depends on your off-road driving style.

 

[poppatello]

I already trussed the AMC20 rear and had the tubes welded. Just need to swap out to one piece axles and add the spool...[emoji6]

 

[Lumpy Grits]

I'll just build up my stock axles...

One of the best parts about a Ford 9", are the much larger brakes.
Put my '9' in about 23 years ago-NO REGRETS!
LG

 

[Old Dog]

With a V8, 456 gears and 35" tires I wouldn't put any more money in the 20 and 30. If you wheel if even half way hard they won't hold up IMO.

 

[Lumpy Grits]

With a V8, 456 gears and 35" tires I wouldn't put any more money in the 20 and 30. If you wheel if even half way hard they won't hold up IMO.

The 30 front, will outlast the '20' rear.
Build the 9. IF you get it for far less than what you were told, and know somedangbody that knows what they are doing to get that 9 to fit 'rite'.
LG