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Understand what you're saying. This guy isn't doing his own work, he's paying a shop (well, SEMA, so who knows how much he's paying), and shop time to narrow an axle and fab brackets can be just as much as ordering a complete axle assembly. I've narrowed my own axles, and know what's involved (and I own a shop). Just talking here, not disagreeing. I think for sure the control arms would be replaced in the rear, I doubt the stock arms would hold up to 40's and the type of wheeling expected, I wouldn't do it, and the arm angles wouldn't be good with that much lift so you'd want longer arms. Front links would have to made as well as a ton of fab work to remove the IFS and configure for a link suspension, plus figuring out and mounting a steering gear which will require changes to the frame and steering column to connect to it. Lots of fab work, many hours. You have been talking about a guy doing this himself and his own fab skills, tools and labor. That's not what is happening here. And, I bet a guy who has the skills and tools to do it wouldn't, since they would have way too many options to do other things....until these Broncos get older and cheaper.I didn't mean super 60, I meant SuperDuty D60, anything 05+ with 19+' axle shafts is how you get the 1550 steer joints in a 05+ housing. The SD axle with factory wheels is 1" wider than a 90's fullsize Bronco, it wouldn't take much, if anything, to get the tires to fit under the fenders.
Narrowing an axle is easy and isn't expensive, pop the c's off and shorten the tube or cut and sleeve the long side. Custom length shafts are not expensive to have made either. As for electrical it's minimal being that it's a modern axle with speed sensors, we're not talking retro fitting a KP axle. Control arms could be stock for all that matters. I can do all the work myself, the axles are stupid cheap and plentiful in my area (I can get fronts for $300 complete, the e-locker rears are ~$700) and fabricating is just time and materials.
I'm not saying I would buy a 30k+ vehicle and do this to it out of the box, I'm not looking for the spotlight, but it doesn't have to even cost 10k to do it.
I'm assuming to use 1550 axles in the Super Duty housing the knuckles have to come off to change the shafts. I thought Super 60 knuckles had to be used for the shafts to slide out, which would require Super 60 inner C's and housing. Hadn't looked that far into it with stock stuff, since I would use Crane outers and 300m axles and 300m joints, otherwise it's no stronger than the 35 spline 300m stuff I have now.
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