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The Lone Ranger – BW1354 Yoke Swap
I wanted to ditch the flat flange found on the back of my 1354 for a more traditional yoke setup. This allows me to have a greater selection of drive shaft donor’s to make up my drive shafts. This is a pretty straight forward swap as the front and rear transfer case shafts are the same. So you can literally just pull a yoke off at the junk yard (if you can find one) and slap it on the back…
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The Lone Ranger – Master Cylinder Swap
What I thought was going to be a simple swap turned into a big ole waste of time. So I thought I’d throw some information out for those who might need this in the future. For the calipers for the Dana 44 I’m using the stock twin piston deal (same as what’s found on the Dana 60’s of the same vintage). The stock master cylinder for this vintage is in the 1-1/16 bore size range For the Rear calipers, I’m…
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The Lone Ranger – Doubler Linkage
When I bought the 1350 to use for the doubler, it came with the linkage for the AL4D which is supposed to work with the M50D setup. I’m here to tell you it doesn’t, the upper portion of the linkage hits the back of the transmission in high range. So out came the welder and the chop saw! Stock Arm: Little cutting action: Slap some ½” rod and a threaded section onto the old linkage: Get your knob of choice…
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The Lone Ranger – Extending your own driveshaft
Edit: Don’t do it this way, there are better ways of doing this, but I wanted to make the truck move so you do what you have to do sometimes… Well I’m one more step towards getting the truck mobile again. I extended one of the Cherokee driveshaft’s I have laying around. There’s really not much to this, and I’m hoping I can get the thing to balance out later. If it won’t balance, well, I made a nice spare…
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The Lone Ranger – Stock Motor Mount Modification
I picked this trick up somewhere, but I cannot find the original thread that I saw it in. In a nutshell, I wanted a cheap/quick way to firm up the stock mounts, and help give them a chance to survive the extra forces they’ll see form the doubler. If these wind up not working out for me, I’ll swap them out with the Ruff Stuff Mounts that I have sitting here. I’m just tired of the detail work right now,…