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ComancheRob.....I do belive you made the paper.........The Toronto SUN , front and centre. :oops:

Yep the inner shafts are longer on the F250 D44......by about 1". These are the shafts that my F150 extended cab D44 uses.......it is the exact same thing as the F250 except that it uses the 5x5.5 wheel pattern and has single piston callipers. The 78/79 F150 extended cab even uses the F250 style steering linkage etc.....I had to modify a Bronco linkage to work on my rig. I used the 9" rear out of the extended cab F150 as well..... I have 2 sets of F250 inner/outter shafts for spares , F150/Bronco axel shafts are not long enough.

Yep they are wide.......my rig is 83" outside of front tires. WMS to WMS on my 78 F150 axel is 67". My axel is out of an extended cab F150 which is the same axel as the F250......only differance is the brakes/wheel bolt pattern. The extended cab F150's have leaf springs instead of radius arms/coils......no cast in brackets and the tubes are 1/2" thick instead of 3/8" like the cast bracket varieties. Extended cab F150's from 78/79 are a lttle hard to find now......in my area anyway ( RUST ) :oops:

I better get a few too.......PM me your addy and i'll send out some funds. Thanks :D

I just sold a Ford HP D60 to a friend that was closer to needing it than I was. It was a 1988 version with king pins.....pumpkin is offset to the drivers side more than the 78/79 version. I think 88 to 92's still had king pins , 93 and up have ball joints.

Another consideration for the doubler compared to a Stak or Atlas was that when I do my axel swap next season , I am unsure of weather I will use a LP Chev D60 or a HP Ford D60.......Right now I have a drivers drop HP D44 so I can flip the Dana 300 now.......and if I use a Chev D60 then I can unflip it.

My wife ROCKS.....she lets me spend time/money on it anytime I want to. She keeps trying to steal my keys too LOL. Main reason she likes it is because our oldest son loves goin wheeling with me and when he is happy so is she. When I first bought a Jeep it was because I wanted another motorcycle.....and she said NO. So I brought home a 78 Cherokee Chief....think she had second thoughts when I pulled in the driveway HAHAHAHA I asked her what she thought.....she said YOU don't WANT TO KNOW and went back in the house :D

Just like you.....I already have the 203/205 and the 231/300. So for $400 plus shipping , I can double up the cases. $3000 for a Stak or Atlas is way too much coin for very little advantage. Like ya said.....if it isnt enough reduction I'll put a 4:1 kit in the 300. Twin stick the 300 too. Plus I need to lengthen my front driveshaft so the extra length from doubleing the cases is a bonus. I have a ton of 4x4 stuff kickin around.....all bought for next to nothing , or free. I swap and trade parts all the time......Just traded a set of D44 4.10's for a bottom sump 15 gal fuel cell. Autometer Pro Comp gauges were aquired from trading a set of Rancho 5000's. I am always lookin for stuff LOL.

Mudvayne , TOOL , AudioSlave , RATM , Death from above 1979 Classic stuff includes.....Hendrix , Zepplin , Doors , Sabbath , Cream And Stevie Ray Vaughn.....the man had some real talent.

Ya , I guess that box could be bought.......but it aint pretty......its bent , scratched , dented , bondo filled , cut up and generally screwed. If ya want it , I'll throw in 2 real good tail gates LOL......you come get it and its yours for free.

LOL....mine is on a weight loss program too. Bought an MB105 tube bender so the rear frame/bed/tranny cross member/rocker panels etc are all going This winter is V8 swap/doubler/exo/tube bed/tube dash and autometers/finish my trail doors.......next year is D60's and some 42" IROK's

Definetely won't be useing a 231 for the second case......even with a 231 C HD with the wider chain and the 6 pinion planetary , I think it's just an explosion waiting to happen LOL. Thats why I was plannin on a 300 flipped......maybe even run a 4:1 JB conversions kit in the 300 , that way I could have 3 low range options and twin stick the 300 too. The 203/205 is too heavy and too large for the MJ.....maybe another project.

I am considering a BOX4ROCKS doubler in my winter rebuild.....anyone useing a MadRooster doubler , or a similar setup. My driveline is going to be a Dodge Magnum 360 with a 727 / NP231 that I was going to double up with a flipped Dana 300.......but I have an NP203 range box and a Ford NP205 that I have considered doubleing useing an ORD kit. It is going to be very heavy , so I am leaning towards the 231/300 setup. If anyone has some pic's of thier winch mounting that would be cool too.......I am going to be running the rad in the bed , so I am going to mount the winch recessed into the grill opening. Is anyone doing something similar ?????

There is a pic of a long arm setup on www.XJDB.com that shows a setup with TIE ROD ENDS. Looks like he made his axel brackets out of 1" plate steel , the upper arms are attached to the lowwers like an RE kit only they attach one above the other at the axel. Looks pretty good actually. Take a look at HOT RODS some time....the radius arms on the straight axels use TRE's to attach them to the frame. Stock trac bars use a TRE too and they take a pretty severe side load......2500 and 3500 dodge diesels use these trac bars too , how week do you think they are ????

You can get a longer slip yoke from Rubicon Express , but I am unsure about the YJ slip yoke being longer ????? I did the same thing as Pete......cut down my stock 2wd shaft. Ran it for a year , then swaped in a SYE and built a new shaft from 2 Ford driveshafts.