WJ front Dana 30

[dragordie]

I have done a lot of searching on the WJ Dana 30 and all I come up with is the brake conversion. I have used Ford 70s Dana 44 and rear Ford 9inch axles in most of the Jeeps I have built. But for my 88 Comanche Eliminator 2WD conversion to 4WD I am going with a Ford 8.8 rear which is shorter than the stock rear axle in MJ & XJs so will be needing to run wheel spacers. And the WJ Dana 30 is just a tad wider than stock MJ & XJ Dana 30. For my question why not swap the front WJ Dana 30 axle for the front MJ Dana 30? Question 2 with the wheel spacers being 5on4.5 to 5.5 and running the WJ D30 the tires should be in line with each other right?    

[shelbyluvv]

It's not a simple bolt in job. The coil, track bar and control arm mounts are in different places on a WJ. If you go long arm and custom track bar and drag link you can make it work.

 

The lug pattern on a WJ is 5x5 not 5x5.5

 

If you are doing the front why not do the rear 44A as well? Put a good truss and solid cover on it and it will be plenty strong.

[xjrev10]

You can use WJ outers to get the bigger brakes. You'll need different lower ball joints, WJ knuckles, and WJ steering linkage. Probably new hubs and adapter spacer if needed. Here's some discussion on it.

 

http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=75157

 

It in my long list for my MJ.... I run 5x5 wheels already.

[75sv1]

The 90-99.5 XJ hubs (2.133)are about the same height as the WJs (2.118), if you wanted to retain 5 X 4.5 BC. I think the WJ is about 5 inches wider. I am in the process of doing the WJ brake swap. Hope to get me knuckles welded with the spacer. FIY, someone on the Jeep Form has done a 17 inch rim brake upgrade with '11-15 Durango calipers and Ford Mustang GT rotors, and using '84-89 Jeep XJ/MJ 4WD knuckles with 00'-01 XJ hubs.

 

So far on mine, I have the WJ knuckles, the JKS spacers, Timken '00-01 XJ bearing hubs, lower WJ ball joints (Mevotech TTX). Alloy USA upper ball joints, Akebono calipers and brakets, and '07-08 Dodge Nitro (Jeep Liberty ??) rotors. I don't have to trim down the OD of the hub bearing or redrill the bolt holes.