how much should I expect to pay to have a shop narrow my D44, set caster angle, and rotate knuckles?

thanks,

housing both side shortend runs about $200 ,,, them about $90 or so for the resplining,, mounts are just part of the housing job in my book,,,,

P.S. before you take it to a shop clean the hell out of it ,,, that means taking it all the way down and cleaning outside AND inside the tubes,,, I think there is a lot of shops like my self that well not let you unload it if its greasy.

Go through the warn axle shaft catalogue, find your current axles shaft lengths, and then find some that are shorter for a different dana 44 application... Have them cut it down to match the new shaft length... get junkyard shafts from the application you choose to cut it down too. That's what i did anyways... this way you aren't always having custom shafts made. :rolleyes: I even went to the extent of using a HP 44 center...

Originally posted by mUD uCKeR
Go through the warn axle shaft catalogue, find your current axles shaft lengths, and then find some that are shorter for a different dana 44 application... Have them cut it down to match the new shaft length... get junkyard shafts from the application you choose to cut it down too. That's what i did anyways... this way you aren't always having custom shafts made. :rolleyes: I even went to the extent of using a HP 44 center...

The beauty of this isn't even in the cost savings from aving the shafts machined or custom shafts made.

The beauty is all the junkyard replacements when you snap those shafts.

yah, stock replacements with the necked down area are a great way to go.:flipoff2:

Okay, I'm just kidding but seriously, junkyards axles for spares are a nice asset to narrowing it that way. The ones to run in it would be resplined ones which have no neck down area. I shortened one for a rockcrawling competitor on this board a few years ago and he never broke the resplined one which had no neck down area...he kept breaking the stock axle and junkyard ones on the other side which had the neck down area. Just FYI

BTW, there are plenty of writeups on how to do it yourself in your own garage...it isn't hard.

Originally posted by Tankota
Okay, I'm just kidding but seriously, junkyards axles for spares are a nice asset to narrowing it that way.

Another reason is so that if/when you're ready to run alloy shafts, you can just get a set of "off the shelf" Warns/Superiors rather than having to get custom ones built. ;) That's what I'll be doing once my Jeep fund recovers a bit. For now I'm just running stock Spicer shafts.

I was quoted $200 for having my HP D44 narrowed, but chose to do the work myself.

- Chris

yah, stock replacements with the necked down area are a great way to go.:flipoff2:

Okay, I'm just kidding but seriously, junkyards axles for spares are a nice asset to narrowing it that way. The ones to run in it would be resplined ones which have no neck down area. I shortened one for a rockcrawling competitor on this board a few years ago and he never broke the resplined one which had no neck down area...he kept breaking the stock axle and junkyard ones on the other side which had the neck down area. Just FYI

BTW, there are plenty of writeups on how to do it yourself in your own garage...it isn't hard.


Do you know of any shops that specialize in doing the type of re-splining you're speaking of? I have a bunch of extra Chevy 44 shafts and I would guess those would work nicely for making some shafts for a 4" narrowed Waggy widetrack axle.

David

a Waggy widetrack axle.

David



Oh no... not this argument again :flipoff2:

Do you know of any shops that specialize in doing the type of re-splining you're speaking of? I have a bunch of extra Chevy 44 shafts and I would guess those would work nicely for making some shafts for a 4" narrowed Waggy widetrack axle.

David

Badlands Offroad will respline all the Dana stuff.

http://www.badlandsoffroad.com/machineshop.asp

$200-300 depending on what you bring us. We are local to you. If we can help let me know.

Andy