Swapped to Muscle - 75 Duster Daily build

Thank you! I appreciate it!! :D

I have looked into that swap and it really interests me. I have been looking around to see if there were some that are available without having to pull one from my local JY but they are kinda treating them like gold. There is one on Craigslist that is 50% complete with axles, carrier and housing (no brakes) that the guy wants like $1200 or $1300 for. crazy! All because its painted. Otherwise they are the Ranger versions that, after the bit of research that I have done, are the weaker ones with like 28? splines and drums.

Another limitation that I have is the lack of tools/options in my garage. I dont have 220 to be able to use a welder so I am limited in what I can do. I know I could probably look into getting a shop that can cut, narrow and weld the tubes back together along with welding the perches in the right spot. I just havent looked into it enough to see the cost difference. I would like to see about keeping it a bit wider, closer to the specs of a early B-Body and from my understanding, a cut and narrowed 8.8 is the same size as a A-Body. Though, I may be wrong on that.

If you want to shoot for the early B-Body width (I would), grab an Explorer axle and do perches. The Explorer axle is already the right width. I would look at Pull and Save, there are usually 8-10 there at a time and they are only $166 + $15 core. But you have to pull it yourself.

The issue with the Explorer axle is the offset pinion, but other's have done it and probably no more than tweaking the PS muffler so the driveline doesn't rub on it.