Off Roading 35 spline upgrade

[JGheen]

Just wanted to share some pics with you guys of my newly installed 4x4 upgrade. Got the Dynatrac free-spin hub kit with the 35 inner shaft upgrade as well. Very nice kit and I can't wait to put it to the test as soon as the engine is completely back together. The kit wasn't hard to install at all aside from the POS driver side inner axle seal that had a housing that was . 010" larger than the bore it sat in. Other than that it is very nice to have lock-out hubs and no differential spinning down the road. The adapters are the AA-4 adpaters that Arrowcraft makes and they have a Ford bolt pattern for the wheel. The hub bore on the adapters is almost 5" so that made for plently of room to fit comfortably over the lock-out hub housing. I should have bought the Alcoa wheels instead of the cheaper Eagle Alloys cuz the Alocas are hub centric with the 4. 88" hub bore size and the Eagles are bolt centric with a hub bore of about 5. 1" and you have to use shanked 5/8" lug nuts to center the wheel on the adapter. I would have much rather ran some Alcoas but I saved $200 buying the Eagles instead. I just hope with all that leverage out there I don't have cracking lug nut problems since the wheel is not designed like an Alcoa Classic.



Anyway, just a quick note, I was not at all happy with the terrible customer service Dynatrac had to offer with all the crap that I went through to get the parts for this kit but that is another story. Just make sure they have the parts in stock before you give them any money.



Joe

 

[csutton7]

joe--how much, what all came with the kit and what did you do about the inner axle seal---is the don thuren's steering stuff I see???..... chris

 

[JGheen]

No Thruen stuff on my truck. Don makes good stuff but all my steering is my custom design. The kit was extremely over priced but what can you do, Dynatrac is the only place out there that makes a kit like that but after all the customer service pains I went through and finally recieveing the parts the only custom piece in the kit seemed to be the spindles. The hub itself looks like any 'ol Dana 60 hub. I got the kit on a group buy on pavementsucks.com which dropped the price down about $200-300~ The kit is about $2200 with the inner axle upgrade. I wanted to get rid of that POS CAD crap and now I have a nice solid 35 spline inner and outer. I am happy with it but my wallet and wife weren't. :-laf



Joe

 

[csutton7]

thanks--chris

 

[DieselNasty]

JGheen, your truck is one nasty beast! That is one of the biggest baddest trucks ive seen and it is going to take a hell of a lot to break. Nice steering, I want a Thuren crossover kit, I have to get the $$ for my lift together.

 

[JGheen]

Not to bag on Thuren's stuff but you can make your own set-up like mine for a lot cheaper. At least the tie rod is the cheapest thing to make yourself. I wish I did something different on my drag link to get it more parallel with the track bar. It's close enough though.



Joe

 

[csutton7]

what size tube did you use???---chris

 

[JGheen]

I can't remember off the top of my head but I believe it was 1. 25" DOM with a 5/8" ID. Drag link is the same material. Real strong stuff... ... . so strong I don't even run a stabilizer anymore and death wobble is a thing of the past. I still run the DSS stabilzer on the sector shaft of the gearbox. The heims are 3/4" so I had to drill out the knuckles to a 3/4" hole for the new grade 8 bolts.



Joe