http://roanoke.craigslist.org/pts/1752772315.html

does it sound too good?

 

it's an hour away... i'm leaving in a few minutes to go get it.

 

Normal price. That's a Dana 44a, it's an aluminum housing and isn't even close to the strength of the Dana 44. I would look elsewhere. Its fine if your just replacing the rear in your grand cherokee but not a good upgrade.

 

are you serious????

 

aluminum=weak, there would be a good amount of fab work to make that fit

 

don't waste your time or $$

copied from here: http://www.4x4wire.com/jeep/tech/axle/xj_dana44_02/


Other Dana 44s
A Dana 44 from any other vehicle will require some fabrication, like spring and shock perch relocation. The Jeep Comanche pickup (MJ) also came with an optional Dana 44 axle from '87 to '90, and is probably the second best choice for a swap. It's the correct width and bolt pattern. The Comanche axle was a spring-under design, however, so to use the MJ axle under an XJ the perches would have to be relocated to the XJ spring-over configuration. For other axle sources, small differences in width can be ignored (with luck) or solved with custom-offset wheels. Larger width differences (full-size truck axles) are prepared by disassembling, shortening, and rewelding the axle tubes to the differential housing.

Dana 44s are available from Scouts and the full-size (Grand) Wagoneers, although the wheel lug patterns are not the same as the XJ. The axle shafts would have to be redrilled, if possible, to the 5 on 4.5" pattern, or new shafts would be bought. The oddest 44 came (comes!) with the Grand Cherokee (ZJ and WJ) and has an aluminum housing. Yikes! Stay away from this one. It's fine for the street, but you'll run into a dead end trying to upgrade it.

A popular option for the new Jeep Wrangler (the TJ... the one with the coil-spring suspension) is the Dana 44 rear axle. Fantastic? Maybe. The TJ uses the same axles (same Superior part number) as the XJ axle. Ron and Vance agree, however, that the TJ uses the same axle tubes in both the standard Dana 35 and the optional Dana 44. If true, the factory Dana 44 option for the TJ is not as strong as older 44s.

I'm barely scratching the surface on Dana 44 information. See Terry Howe's JeepTech.com for more information.

 

didn't know that. i'll keep looking. thanks guyz.