A 44% stronger HP Dana 44. Fitting Dana 50 gears to build the ultimate jeep TJ front axle. JANA 54

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8 ай бұрын

Credit to Jantz Engineering for the kit, I just did the machining and install work. This center section paired up with some RCV shafts, truss and gusset, aftermarket knuckles with high steer, etc makes for a very light and strong front axle that has superior ground clearance to most 1 ton swaps.
Link to pinion bearing puller:
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@hendersonequipment 7 ай бұрын

This was a cool one. Nice job wearing safety glasses too. Cool boring head too. Just simply amazing

@handhwiegman8115 7 ай бұрын

Well done. You are an inventor and a problem solver.

@motoboggin2619 2 ай бұрын

this is awesome i wish i wouldve seen this months ago.

@Yourmomsboyfriend666 11 күн бұрын

Where are you and what would you chRge for this? Just picked up my HP 44 and will be wanting to do this eventually. (Im on east coast.)

@lol123321123321 7 ай бұрын

Thank you for this video. I have been wanting to do this forever but haven't seen any information of anyone doing this other than Carl jantz video. With the rcvs I trust this set up more than a stock Dana 60 front end. Rcvs are incredibly strong and make the larger ring and pinion with it.

@spankranchgarage 7 ай бұрын

Yeah its going to be nice. The only thing I would worry about is the D44 balljoints but its going in a TJ with a V8 so its not the lightest rig but not so heavy either.

@lol123321123321 7 ай бұрын

@@spankranchgarage ohhh you're right. The 44 basically has the same size ball joints as a Dana 30. When I swapped my Ford hp 44 in I noticed the ball joint seperation was less than a Dana 30 as well... Jeep axles have the ball joints pressed into the axle housing where old school floater front ends typically have the ball joints pressed into the outer knuckle, not inner. Not sure if that changes the strength or not

@adrianlaverick8040 3 ай бұрын

@@spankranchgarage at least for the old school dana 44s (like this one you are working on) they make ball joint eliminators which would help I think

@kisoia 8 ай бұрын

well done!

@vanessasandoval9895 8 ай бұрын

Keep it up man ! You and nnkh are my favorite channels

@mattezzi 7 ай бұрын

Well done man

@xelad6159 8 ай бұрын

Badass dude, love the machining content, slowly getting my mill and lathe to where i want them this is good motivation :D

@spankranchgarage 8 ай бұрын

Its a game changer! With determination there arent many limits to what you can make.

@CH0PS_SHOP 8 ай бұрын

Always killer content!

@maxrogers762 3 ай бұрын

Great job! Liked and subd🤘

@spankranchgarage 3 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@kyletice811 8 ай бұрын

Alot of work for 0.5” more ring gear on a front end that the ring gear likely isn’t the weak link? Unless he’s running custom big bell 35 spline rcv shafts or something. Cool to see something a little more unique though. The jana/jantz stuff is cool.

@spankranchgarage 8 ай бұрын

I agree the R/P probably isnt the weak link. The tiny ball joint spacing is. You really cant fit much CV bell or U-Joint in there. The customer is doing 30 spline inner/outer RCVs which will be pretty stout. If this was for my rig I would of started with a superduty D50 and shaved it to have D44 like ground clearence. There cheap and plentiful and share all the SD D60 outers and BJ spacing.

@scubasteve7946 24 күн бұрын

Intriguing idea to use a 50. I have always wanted to build a reverse rotation 44 for the rear of my flatfender. But perhaps the Dana 50 would be better like you mentioned.