Building the ultimate Dana 44?

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I changed the design and hammered out a curved piece of 3/8" steel to allow less friction from oil turbulence. Might get me a half mile a gallon, who knows? Next thing to do since I have dreams of 40s is to make the axle housing wider. You can't have anything resembling a turning radius with stock width axles. I decided on three inches per side and then use spacers so I could narrow it for say something like 38s for daily driving. So time for some axles to fit those locker side gears. I decided on Mosier and they had about a 2 week turn around on custom axles. Here is a comparison to stock axles