i'm thinking of running a spool up front in d30 to do this i've heard i need selectable hubs. well i've been looking at the warn conversion but it tells me that it is not to be used with over 30" tires. can anyone shed some light on the matter for me!? thanks

30" lol. i'm running 37s on mine. just a matter of time til i break something, but i'm pretty easy on the skinny pedal. i wouldn't run a spool up front. gonna be a pita steering offroad. try a lockright or aussie. i run a lockright up front with no complaints.

Another vote for the lunchbox locker, the hub conversion is expensive and unnecessary.

i'm thinking of running a spool up front in d30 to do this i've heard i need selectable hubs. well i've been looking at the warn conversion but it tells me that it is not to be used with over 30" tires. can anyone shed some light on the matter for me!? thanks

That's just Warn covering their ass on the legal end. You'd be fine running bigger meats on the conversion setup. But yeah, they're pricey.

Spool and hubs or ARB? ARB.

Its a dana 30, if you spend more than 250 dollars upgrading that axle you will be thinking about how much money you wasted on it.

run a lunchbox locker, and upgrade nothing else, until it breaks. If you break it often, replace the whole axle.

If you must have locking hubs go with the Reid knuckles, they will bolt up to a unit bearing Dana 30 or 44,then you can go with the old 44 hubs.You can go with 6 on 5.5 (chev parts) or 5 on 5.5(ford parts,for the ford spacing you will need to mix Ford & Chev parts) A lot of money to spend on a 30. You mite try and find a HP 30 with the dissconect pass side from an XJ to swap in.Go with the lunch box locker,If it is a DD and you have the $ go with an ARB.( with Ford or Chev bolt patern you will need new rims and adapters for the rear) The ARB would cost about the same as slectable hubs and be a better option.(jeep397 is right)

If you must have locking hubs go with the Reid knuckles, they will bolt up to a unit bearing Dana 30 or 44,then you can go with the old 44 hubs.You can go with 6 on 5.5 (chev parts) or 5 on 5.5(ford parts,for the ford spacing you will need to mix Ford & Chev parts) A lot of money to spend on a 30. You mite try and find a HP 30 with the dissconect pass side from an XJ to swap in.Go with the lunch box locker,If it is a DD and you have the $ go with an ARB.( with Ford or Chev bolt patern you will need new rims and adapters for the rear) The ARB would cost about the same as slectable hubs and be a better option.(jeep397 is right)

I can tell you right now that to do it correctly and gain anything resembling good steering that you can drive on the street with, the Reid stuff is a lot more than most can handle.

I'm really good at steering and I don't know that I would encourage anyone to endure the effort, expense, time that it takes to use them nor do I think I'll be using them again on a TJ stock axle.

That 30" disclaimer is probably for the 5 on 4.5 hub conversion. The 5 on 5.5 hub conversion is pretty good, but expensive. I bent and broke some stuff in my kit while running 37s on my tj. I'm swapping axles in the tj and put the built tj axles in a cheap daily driver XJ on 33s and feel pretty good about it now.

you should definitely swap to a high pinion if you have a low pinion.

find yourself a 2000-2004 (not 99) clunker WJ in a junkyard and swap it's steering and brakes on your D30. It's cheap now and hardly more work than getting stock style steering to work good and you get big brakes.

I can tell you right now that to do it correctly and gain anything resembling good steering that you can drive on the street with, the Reid stuff is a lot more than most can handle.

I'm really good at steering and I don't know that I would encourage anyone to endure the effort, expense, time that it takes to use them nor do I think I'll be using them again on a TJ stock axle.What problems did you have. We are in the process of instaling this on an XJ with a Curie HP 9. Would like to know what to look out for.

I've been running the 5-4.5" conversion on my Currie built D44 with 35's, detroit locker and 5.13 gears, I've done some hard trails without breaking anything. I'm selling it, and upgrading the front axle 'cause I'm going up to 37-38's , but not because of having any problems with it.

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