I currently have the dana 30 front end, and am not enjoying the bump steer of day to day driving. My sig shows that I have a 2" aal with SOA. I have two choices, either find a dana 44 front end and convert it to hi-steer or buy the M.O.R.E. hi-steer setup for the dana 30. I will be changing to 4.88's as soon as I find a ford 8.8 for the rear. Any input would be appreciated.



Shaun

Well, there is the saying "you can't polish a turd"... Are you staying with 35's forever?

well I don't know if this works both ways but right now my dana 44 has dana 30 knuckles until I get the 44 ones drilled and tapped and get all the other goodies. So mabey you could just swap some dana 44 knucles then whe you decied to upgrade you could just keep the knuckles

i dont think he can swap the yj dana 30 knuckles with 44 knuckles.

i think you can only do that on cj's
But i could be wrong

True, you can't put 44 Knuckles on a YJ 30.
Get a pair of axles out of a Waggy & 6lug wheels.

what year waggy will have the diff on the drivers side? Also, would it make more sense to take the rear diff off of the same waggy so as to keep the axle width the same front and back? TIA

Shaun

'80? & newer
Don't get a '83 -'84 with vacume disconnect.
Get the rear out of the same vehicle. Either an AMC 20 until around '86 (much better than the CJ version) or D44 in the newer ones.

Originally posted by Scout Dude
Well, there is the saying "you can't polish a turd"... Are you staying with 35's forever?
Grass hopper; you can polish a turd, but it is still a TURD!

;)

awww, quite baggin' on the 30. some of us run them just fine. unfortunately you get raped if you buy a high steer kit for one. for lack of a better explanation, the more kit looks a little dinky though, might have better luck somewhere else. between 4xvideo.com's 2.5 tons and my own 30, i get alot more trail time on mine. nothing wrong with gossamer, it just sees more time upgrading and becoming the ULTIMATE than actually wheeling. i like my jeep on the trail thank you. now with that said, i have to go put some 37's on it and see if it survives.

WJ outers should work, they are starting to show up at junkyards around here.

Ive got a '79 waggy axle under the front of my YJ. Im on 1.5" SOA with 35". I had a horrible draglink angle, and at one time, the draglink actually hit the pass. leaf spring when turning right. I went to SRC Precision (jeepxtremes.com) for my cross over setup. They gave me new knuckles, with arms already bolted to the top, new solid bar tierod and draglink, plua all heim joints. Havent had a single problem since. I highly recommend.

Ryan

Originally posted by CJ5-man
WJ outers should work, they are starting to show up at junkyards around here.


You would think that, but they don't bolt up. You need to space them out about a 1/4 inch. I haven't personally done it, but Dan McKeag runs them on his new Yellow Jeep. http://www.burnsvilleoffroad.com . I talked to him about doing this and it seemed like more work and money than running the MORE conversion or a 44 swap.

Ben

just a suggestion. I had the same problem, I found a local welding/4x4 shop to copy the MORE sterring correction. It cost me about 1/2.