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    Quote Originally Posted by 85cj7 View Post
    Asking all 9" gurus.

    What years did Ford/Lincoln continentals come with a 9"? Availability? I heard these were the best housings to start with. Any other advice on junk yard 9" finds.
    umm, how so? I mean I guess a car 9" is narrow, but as mentioned you would have to do some sort of odd axle redrill or expensive aftermarket axles. Additionally I would not use a chunk from a car. With the exception of a few kick arse 9" car's all the chunks I have seen are small bearing and less than 28 spline.

    Perhaps an EB 9" might suit you. Or I know, just get an 8.8, I have one from an '84 bronco.
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    there was a year when some had big bearring and disc brakes I believe. I remember way back in highschool we robbed the disc's off of something for a drum to disc conversion.
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    Taken from the link on the previous page. . .

    There are a few different housing designs that Ford put under their vehicles. Some of the housings are fairly weak and some are extremely strong. The one that is most desirable was factory equipment on Lincoln Continentals. This housing has the exact same shape of the Currie heavy-duty housing. The resemblance is so close that even the weld that surrounds the back of the center section stops in exactly the same spot. Hmmm, sort of makes you wonder, hey! One thing that is a little different about the two housings is that the Currie one contains 0.188" walled axle tubes and the Lincoln housing actually contains true 0.250" tubes. It seems a little odd that the Lincoln's 9" housings were made stronger than the truck housings. I guess one way you could look at it was that the Lincoln housings needed to stand up to the 429ci under the hood, which put out around 450 ft-pounds of torque.

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    lincoln nines are good should even come with disk brakes.

    5x5.5 is a great bolt pattern,

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    all the lincoln rears that i have gotten havs had 5x4.5, I know this because for the the longest time my 68' had different patterns front and rear. when I converted the nine to 5x5 I thought I would just get some different rotors or redrill teh ones I had, but once i had my new moser's I figured out the 5x5 pattern was to large to fit in the hat of the rotor even if I turned down the o.d. of the axle.

    lincoln calipers are pieces of shiat anyway, better and cheaper disk brake options are out there

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    What's that whine? tigweld's Avatar
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    also I have never seen one of these 1/4 wall tube 9"s

    In all the 9"s I've fooked wit they have all been .188 and a little thicker near the outer bearing

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    Alright, lets talk axles. (newb ?'s)

    Currently I have Creighton's old D44, and am slowly accumulating parts to put it together. I previously planned on throwing some gears and a locker in the D30, but with intentions of eventually going 35"s, I want the piece of mind of having a more than adequate axles.
    So, should I build the the D30, or pick up an HP30? Is the HP30 worth upgrading to? Benefits? Or should I find another 44 for the front?

    Keep in mind this is my daily driver, and will be for at least another three years.
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    i thought the TJ already had a HP30?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Eckert View Post
    i thought the TJ already had a HP30?
    Nope. I believe Cherokees do though.

    Which brings up another question, how different are the suspension brackets on the XJ than the TJ. I have never looked under an XJ but I assume they are similar.
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    front is the same, rear is leaf on a cheerookee.
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    I wouldn't spend any money on upgrading a 30 if you plan on doing serious wheeling in the future.
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    Front track bar is different on early XJ's. I found this out the hard way. It's not hard to fix but it's something to look out for.

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    Just keep the 30. A 44's hardly better. Swapping to 30HP doesn't get you anything as usually its the shafts or u-joints that go. Swapping to a 44 allows you to also break hubs. If you want to dump some money in it put some alloy shafts in it. Otherwise, get a spare pair of shafts and have some fun.

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    Selectable hubs would give my an extra mpg or so... hmmmmm Less wear as well...
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    Quote Originally Posted by breckboarder55 View Post
    Selectable hubs would give my an extra mpg or so... hmmmmm Less wear as well...
    do you have a CAD axle?

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