I think the armor kit is around $230? It’s has everything. Labor will depend on your local market. We’re at $100 an hour.
Thanks...$1k to truss the front axle is more than I would've thought to consider it cheap insurance. I'd rather get RCV's for close to that price. You?
Ideally you’d get both! There’s plenty of folks lined up willing to do it for less but this is really one of those “you get what you pay for” and most shops don’t have real welders that understand pre and post heat and how to correctly weld cast steel. These are an honest days work. The welding is the easy part and by far the quickest. It’s all the prep that drags it out and even pulling the axles takes an hour easy when you account for having to remove everything.
Parts to upgrade both my axles comes to less than just the front Dynatrac ProRock or even Dana Ultimate 44. The labor might bounce that up to the price of the Dana Ultimate D44:
total side note, not exactly sure on the price difference. But why doesn’t everyone use Dana advantek gears when regearing? Maybe my guy was blowing smoke up my ass but the advantek gears are stronger than aftermarket
Good stuff...adding RCV's to the front would be a significant upgrade vs. only adding chromoly shafts. I think your easily looking at $12k+ swapping to d60s with brakes/driveshafts....most people also buy different wheels. Deduct from that whatever you sell takeoff d44s for...going rate seems to be $3k.
D60's are much more than I need, so yes a bit of upgrade will be the way to go. My dilemma is the truss. Do I really need that? I'll be regearing and likely pay a shop for that. Might as well get it all done at once. I do want LCA skids but welded or bolt on? lol
The plus side to buying an axle is that you can get one with a better caster and pinion angles for your new ride height. I'd love a 6.4L Hemi to go with a long arm coilover suspension as well... but I don't have a $100k to throw down.
How big of a tire do you plan on running and how hard are you going to be wheelin? For me, I dont think a truss is worth an additional $1k if I'm wheelin halfway responsible on 37s or 38s with RCV's up front.
Yeah I watch his stuff. He's a great fabricator, with more skills than I have to be able to do tons on the cheap.
Yeah...prob because Dirt Life guy was running proper 40" stickies and Litebrite is still running mediocre milestars that are really a hybrid tire....no comparison on tougher climbs like that.Nice video but not much depth on D44's and nothing about stronger JL D44's which is pertinet to us. I might have to think more on 44 axles like Dynatrac or Currie. D60 have huge pumpkins and are heavy beasts, maybe not needed for my 5,200 lbs. JLR with 37's and 3.6 motor. I'm not ready to do or have done a swap with this Virus still raging. As long as I'm setting hereIt's all good.
BTW, I saw this young man wheeling in a LiteBrite YouTube video. His Jeep really made short work of trail sections the LiteBrite Wrangler seemed to struggle on. In fact LiteBrite detroyed their rear driveline and his 2dr. blew right though that section.He's built a nice little Jeep for sure and has skills.
