wildace

After wheeling my jeep a bit on 40s and messing up my steering box I decided it was time for hydro assist and after sitting around and shopping I figured I'd might as well swap gears cause the 5.13s were close but I could use more so then I decided I should speed up the future plans of running 60s instead of spending even more money on my Dana 44s so here is how this new project is starting with my 08 Rubicon done up with rustys 5.5 long arm, 2 inch spacers, sleeved and gusseted front, 5.13 gears and a bunch of other stuff

wildace

Sold my axles and allready had the front Dana 60 laying around waiting for time to start

wildace

Blasted the 60 and set it under the front to check measurements

wildace

And parts are on order. Synergy rear axle brackets, Artec front truss and lower link mounts and 4 14 inch travel ORI air struts

dr.dirty

Nice!! someday ill work on mine again

wildace

Yeah you allready have a head start on me but next week ill have my axles bolted in just waiting on all the brackets and truss to come in and ill have plenty of time to do my coilover mounts cause there is an 8 week wait for the ori struts

dr.dirty

Nice, I have a few projects to finish before i can devote some time to my POS. Ill def be watching to see how you like the ORI's on the heavy 4dr. Did you get the ones with the remote resis?

wildace

No but I might add them later if I need to. I read a few write ups from some guys running the ori struts and they said that after getting them tuned right they were amazing.

wildace

Also thanks for the link on the coilover mounts but I think I'm going to outboard mine. I have a few ideas so once I start cutting ill post some pics

1978cj7jk2012

What's a rough guess of what a swap like this cost setting the price of the axels aside??