Did a search and 1 person asked this already with no reply's. Can I take the front discs off another d44 and bolt them on the d44 with drums or is this gonna be a real pain in the arse. Thanks.
Eric

Eric, if you are talking about the 44 that you are looking at buying from me, Ive looked into it, and its a fairly easy conversion. All you would really need to do is either get all chevy 6 lug stuff, from the spindles out, or look for an older bronco, with discs if you wanted to maintain the 5 on 5.5 lug stuff, and grab everything from the spindles out. If you look on ebay, about once a week, there is someone selling a complete disc brake conversion setup for a front 44. they go for abtou 140 bucks or so. Just type in Dana 44 for your search and you should come up with what you need.
Scott

Thanks man time to hit the junkyards. Also does that axle have anything on the tubes like the bronco fr d44's or is the tube clean like the 78 79 f150 d44s with just the ears on the end that you can cut off? I just need something that I can get done fairly cheap and I want to try to get it done before April. Thanks for the info.

Eric

Actually, the tubes have radius arm wedges, and a sway bar mount on them and might take a while to grind off. Getting it done BEFORE april? I don't know about that..
Scott

I've swapped my eb front drum to disc, I used my stock knuckles
and swapped to a 76 blazer backing plate and spindle . You have
to grind knuckle for clearance but no biggie there . I may be wrong but a waggoneer w/ a 44 will work to . I swapped to a 79'
f- 350 master cylinder , but possibly a corvette or camaro cylinder
would work . Hope this helps :flipoff2: