Gatorgrizz27
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There were a couple threads I found on the old site, but it damn near unreadable with ads every other post and I didn’t find anything conclusive.
A buddy of mine has a 2005 F-350 SRW that he will sell me for $500, it’s 2wd though. From what I’ve found, swapping a Super Duty front axle under it is pretty straight forward. It would be the coil sprung/radius arm front end, can anyone confirm that the coil buckets and arms are the same? Steering box the same and track bar bracket will bolt onto the crossmember? Trying to run no lift so just fabbing stuff to work can get cramped quick.
It seems a divorced cable shift 205 was a popular choice for the T-case, but it might be a wash once you figure in having driveshafts built/modified. Anyone know if a junkyard electric shift Super Duty T-case can be converted to manual easily? Either with factory parts or a cable setup? The manual one I had was a bit finicky. Same question on the trans, does the tailshaft housing swap over or is going divorced a better option?
Realize these are somewhat newbish sounding questions, but my experience is with the older leaf sprung versions and most of the info you find relates to those. I can fab, weld, etc, I’m just looking to keep this from turning into a multi year project like they tend to when you go off the deep end.
A buddy of mine has a 2005 F-350 SRW that he will sell me for $500, it’s 2wd though. From what I’ve found, swapping a Super Duty front axle under it is pretty straight forward. It would be the coil sprung/radius arm front end, can anyone confirm that the coil buckets and arms are the same? Steering box the same and track bar bracket will bolt onto the crossmember? Trying to run no lift so just fabbing stuff to work can get cramped quick.
It seems a divorced cable shift 205 was a popular choice for the T-case, but it might be a wash once you figure in having driveshafts built/modified. Anyone know if a junkyard electric shift Super Duty T-case can be converted to manual easily? Either with factory parts or a cable setup? The manual one I had was a bit finicky. Same question on the trans, does the tailshaft housing swap over or is going divorced a better option?
Realize these are somewhat newbish sounding questions, but my experience is with the older leaf sprung versions and most of the info you find relates to those. I can fab, weld, etc, I’m just looking to keep this from turning into a multi year project like they tend to when you go off the deep end.