Toyota Front Axle with D44 Knuckles and Axles

[90slvpup]

I am building up my 90 pickup to be a decent DD and crawling rig. I already have 5.29 's front and rear along with ARB's in both. My shop told me that a cool thing to try would be chop those toyota knuckles off the front and put D44's on there. He assured me that the 30 spline D44 axles would fit into my toyota 3rds (which was true) and that if i run a HD Axle and U joint (longfield U Joint) that it would be a pretty bomb proof steup. What does anyone think about this idea is it worht the work??
I was orriginally going to just put longs 30 splines in there and call it good.

Thanks for the sugestions!

[J Kimmel]

why not save your money and put some longs in. It'd be a "cool" waste of money to put in 44 outers IMO.

why spend money building a custom axle that is no better than what you have?

[Kyron]

why not save your money and put some longs in. It'd be a "cool" waste of money to put in 44 outers IMO.

why spend money building a custom axle that is no better than what you have?


X's 2

What the shop ment is "It would be cool to pay us to build you somthing that you could buy for less money"

If you break the new 35spline longs with the better inners then you need a 60 :eek:

[Klif01]

Longs....

Its so much easier!

[RamToy]

I concur.

Stick with the longs.

[fourwd1]

why not save your money and put some longs in. It'd be a "cool" waste of money to put in 44 outers IMO.

why spend money building a custom axle that is no better than what you have?

X3

The 30 spline longs will be srtonger than the D44.

[sparky]

longs

jumping on bandwagon :D

[Rockcrawlintoy]

X3

The 30 spline longs will be srtonger than the D44.

than a stock 44. the alloy shafts and CTMs make it stronger than a stock 60

DRew

[J Kimmel]

I'll take my stock 60 over a ctm'd 44 anyday. I'd also buy Longs way before I'd ever consider wasting money on a 44. The only benefit you'll get from a 44 is the added width/stability, you can argue all you want but putting warns and ctms on a 44 is damn expensive!

[KToy]

i like ujoints over birf's IMO. id rather deal with ujoints over birfs on the trail anyday. also i wouldnt worry about putting dana knuckles on ur axle either.

either put d60 knuckle hybrids or buy a d44 wide axle and then just put nice ujoints in it like me and drew and run 37's no problem.

i have broke 1 ujoint in 1 year and it was in reverse with the front locker in and turned all the way in.

i hammer down as well and i am not worried about it.


on another note i am getting a 60 when i come across one.

[J Kimmel]

I agree, I'd much rather deal with u-joints, a broken birf on the trail requires you to take it apart to fix, a u-joint you can just unlock the hub.

with a 44 though...I'd rather have my wheel stay on when one breaks, I've seen that happen more than a few times:)

[KToy]

if a ujoint breaks y does ur wheel fall off.

if ur balljoint breaks i would understand.

[J Kimmel]

u-joints break, ears open up, balljoints pop off, wheel folds under. ask around, it might not've happened to you yet but it will eventually.

[Ghetto]

I have seen it happen also. My buddy couldnn't compete cause his wheel fell off on his first obstacle when that happened.

Now that sucks.

[Rockcrawlintoy]

yeah it does happen but i would still rather deal with a broken ball joint once in a while then deal with a birf breaking. u still have to takeit all apart. as alloys and CTMs are all that expensive. whats the cost of a 300m birfs, and inners plus the cost of all the hubs and crap to gte 30 spline. its about the same as dana 44. you also get an axle that is a little stronger then a stock 60

Drew

[Ghetto]

You are going to break the r&p before you break that other stuff (most likely) I say this because I have the longs in mine and the upgraded shafts and I am replacing my r&p cause I broke it last trip out.