mudtoy67
10-31-2006, 12:47 AM
I’ve been dying to go wheeling forever, and I’ve decided I’m going this year no matter what. So now I need to find some combination of the three trucks I have to make a decent truck to wheel. Here’s what I’ve thinking so far:
The 95 Ford is in the best shape as far as the way it sits now, it could be wheeled. And now that I have a daily driver if I break it I don’t have to worry about having to fix it to go back to work when I get home. But with stock gears, open diffs, and 33s its trail capabilities are somewhat limited. So I’ve been mulling over what I have available to me, and some ideas that might be affordable as far as mods go.
Here’s what I’m thinking…
Find a cheap set of gears for front and rear---4.10 or 4.56
Weld the rear 8.8
I think I’ve got a line on a dana 44 trac-lock
For tires I’ve got some 36” hummer tires and six lug 16.5” rims---I think I know where to find some waggy parts to make the front axle 6 lug, and I’ll just drill the rear axles.
Problem with the wheels is that they are 10” wide, which makes me a little leary about losing beads frequently. I might try the Muttlock I saw on Pirate a while back (some guy stuck a small tractor front tire with inner tube in his Swampers, kinda like the Staun internal beadlock works). Only problem with that is I would probably have to trailer it to Clayton, and I don’t think CDR wants to go so I won’t have a tow rig.
I’m also gonna need to make some new traction bars, and do some bracing on the TTB drop brackets to keep doing any more tweaking on the frame.
Other ideas I’ve tossed around…
Swap the leaf sprung Dana44 from the ’77 in
Swap some parts for a radius arm Dana44 setup
—I’d like to do the SAS but while researching it today it looks like it would take more money than I would want to put into this truck
Swap in the C6 I’ve got for a little more help negotiating the trails
Get the 77 F250 running….it needs a lot to be trustworthy, and the tow rig issue comes up again
Get the FJ running….it just needs to much and I don’t want to just kluge it together like I did the first time.
What do yall think?
The 95 Ford is in the best shape as far as the way it sits now, it could be wheeled. And now that I have a daily driver if I break it I don’t have to worry about having to fix it to go back to work when I get home. But with stock gears, open diffs, and 33s its trail capabilities are somewhat limited. So I’ve been mulling over what I have available to me, and some ideas that might be affordable as far as mods go.
Here’s what I’m thinking…
Find a cheap set of gears for front and rear---4.10 or 4.56
Weld the rear 8.8
I think I’ve got a line on a dana 44 trac-lock
For tires I’ve got some 36” hummer tires and six lug 16.5” rims---I think I know where to find some waggy parts to make the front axle 6 lug, and I’ll just drill the rear axles.
Problem with the wheels is that they are 10” wide, which makes me a little leary about losing beads frequently. I might try the Muttlock I saw on Pirate a while back (some guy stuck a small tractor front tire with inner tube in his Swampers, kinda like the Staun internal beadlock works). Only problem with that is I would probably have to trailer it to Clayton, and I don’t think CDR wants to go so I won’t have a tow rig.
I’m also gonna need to make some new traction bars, and do some bracing on the TTB drop brackets to keep doing any more tweaking on the frame.
Other ideas I’ve tossed around…
Swap the leaf sprung Dana44 from the ’77 in
Swap some parts for a radius arm Dana44 setup
—I’d like to do the SAS but while researching it today it looks like it would take more money than I would want to put into this truck
Swap in the C6 I’ve got for a little more help negotiating the trails
Get the 77 F250 running….it needs a lot to be trustworthy, and the tow rig issue comes up again
Get the FJ running….it just needs to much and I don’t want to just kluge it together like I did the first time.
What do yall think?