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Expedition Leader
In my travels along the information highway, I came upon this crazy dude who performed a solid axle swap in the late model Xterra:
It's pretty insane, huh? Those tires are 36" tall. While a solid axle swap may not be entirely appropriate for a vehicle built for expedition travel (a violation of the keep-it-serviceable "rule"), but this is good stuff for a hardcore trail rig. He appears to have scored the axles economically at about $60 each. Both came out of a late 70s Ford Bronco (9" and D44).
If you're interested to see more, there is a forum thread here:
http://thenewx.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=189&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=225
It opens to a page in the middle of the discussion where he posts pictures of the final product.
Here's his webapge:
http://ponyboy.alpinetribe.com/index.php
Raise your glass to the pioneers :beer:
Mark
It's pretty insane, huh? Those tires are 36" tall. While a solid axle swap may not be entirely appropriate for a vehicle built for expedition travel (a violation of the keep-it-serviceable "rule"), but this is good stuff for a hardcore trail rig. He appears to have scored the axles economically at about $60 each. Both came out of a late 70s Ford Bronco (9" and D44).
If you're interested to see more, there is a forum thread here:
http://thenewx.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=189&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=225
It opens to a page in the middle of the discussion where he posts pictures of the final product.
Here's his webapge:
http://ponyboy.alpinetribe.com/index.php
Raise your glass to the pioneers :beer:
Mark
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