In the process of a d44 solid axle swap, 10.25 is in the rear already just need more height and doing some restoration too. Figured I'd post up pictures since I know a few people here were interested

The swap
front: d44 solid axle, need to install the 4.10s still
rear- sterling 10.25 limited slip 4.10's
coils- 6-6.5 super lifts from jbg
shocks- to be determined dont have em yet
stock buckets, radius arms, track bar and drag link for now

Ill post alot of pictures but I have everything on this-
http://www.supermotors.net/registry/24817/79749

Start- 93 f150 ext cab short bed, 302 automatic


10.25


10.25 and frame cleaned up



sitting on its own weight, needs atlest 2 more inches im guessing


d44 cleaned up


starting front


the classic


updates to come

 

Subbed!

 

what are you gonna do about the hubs? would look kinda funny with 2 different lug patterns.

nice work so far!

 

Mo betta then that TTB crap fer sure.

Ain't nothin' but a thing to make a 44 with 8lug outers.

Adrianspeeder

 

8 lug dana 44

 

Axle is hanging via coils, 7* bushings in, ra's aren't in place yet but from the looks of it this is too much lift for the stock ra brackets and stock ra's so Ill be using drop brackets from my ttb. Too dark for pictures Ill get them up tomorrow, looks so much better then ttb already

 

radius arms are such a pain, if I ever do a d60 swap Ill be buying extended arms intended for 80-96 f150 sas. Need to do a little cutting and modifying for the ttb brackets to line up on frame right ( because of the location) and eventually Ill get pics up

 

Starting to get these arms all lined up, still need to do a little grinding to the body mounts

 

Same problem we had doin 3 of my friends SAS's (86 F150, 87 f150, 96 F150) using the 6" TTB rad arm brackets. In all honesty, its gunna be weak around those drops, the flex and stress is a lot. All 3 friends added a crossbar to tie the radius arms together, all experienced death shake. I went with the stock style 79 rad brackets and had another friend cut them back 22* to account for the frame width difference. Mine went in like a glove, while the other 3 had to put one arm in and ratchet strap the other from a bench to get em far enough apart.

For shocks, i suggest Bilstien 5100s. Also tie the track bar bracket into the front engine crossmember.

 

I hear ya on the radius arm cross member Already planned on doing that

middle picture is a plain and simple idea, as well as I mite make an actual frame rail to frame rail cross member there, are you saying they had problems before or after they x membered it?

I found that my lift was just a little too big to do the stock brackets the angle wouldn't of been good. I also liked the ttb brackets better then the drop bracket extensions for a 78/79. I've been slacking on pictures but just got my james duff track bar mount in mail yesterday So all I have left to buy is order my shocks and figure out what exactly I want to do with brakes, whole bunch of people telling me different things

 

Before the tied the radius arms together. I would hae perfered them some kind of frame to frame brace bec ause i could see that causing a bind (middle pic, friends bracinjg) but maybe not.

 

bolted on, full drop, pictures of it on 4 wheels soon to come Ill be picking up new (to me) rims tonight with some bald bald swampers on em. I just need the rims any way




Now I just need to decide between bilstien 5150's vs 5100's vs fox 2.0's, any opinions or other good shocks, willing to dish out a little money because Im only running single shock up front for now so want quality up there

 

The 5150s are 5100s but custom lenght/valving. I run the 5150s up front and the 5100s out back.

 

Ok thanks thats good to know, I dont have a clue about valving and all that stuff, I imagin I want like 4-5" of up travel and 9-10 down so 14 " travel for the fronts (I think maybe 12" would be better?) but as Im sure you can tell, Im no genius on shocks

 

What i would do is measure the distance, at ride height, from the top n bottom shock mount center to center. Then max the suspension out up and down.

Since i couldnt do that, i did the first step and gave myself 4" of up travel and 8" of down travel for a total of 12" of movement. This is with stock radius arms and Superlift 4" coils.

Honestly, i seen ur over on FSB so id ask there. They gave me help on measuring for shocks.

Ah, i seen ur running the stock coil towers...i swapped in some 70s coil towers and 80-97 F250/350 upper shock mounts. Hmm, i dont know them...