James’ 1974 W200 build

You will need to find a Chevy Dana 44 or 10 bolt. They are the same. I think ‘73-‘87 are the years. Must be a 3/4 ton 8 lug truck. I found a complete axle for 80 bucks. K-that is unusually cheap. The rotors and pads I got at Summit, 110 to my door for those. I spent 250 at RockAuto for inner/outer wheel bearings, wheel seals, axle u-joints, and upper/lower ball joints. I had to buy 16 new wheel studs because the ones that came off the donor axle were too rusty. $50 at Orielly Auto Parts. The calipers were reman units I got at CarQuest, those were $50. I also had to buy new warn hubs, the ones off my donor axle were missing. I opted for Warn Premiums, at Summit those are $127. Roughly $670 total all parts including the donor axle.

You probably don’t have to go to the extreme like I did, most likely your wheel studs would be okay, the old rotors could be turned, mine were shot. You don’t need warn premiums, you could save $50 by going with the mile markers. So there is a couple hundred savings right there.

from the Chevy axle you will need everything from the stub shafts out. Use the existing dodge knuckles, the Chevy knuckles have a bigger hole for the tie rod ends which doesn’t work with the dodge’s steering link.

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Do you remember what size those studs were? Mine are fine I just need to get lug nuts for them. There are larger than my half by twenties that are currently on the truck. I'll have to order half by twenties for the back and they look like 9/16 but I don't know the thread pitch?...