Hypoid previously posted:
"This is (almost) a contradiction. You will pay to swap and adapt the knuckles for bigger brakes, but "never mind" the crossover steering? Yes, you can keep the "Inverted Y" steering, even as a half-step. After the cost of swapping and adapting WJ knuckles, the cost for an OTK flip is outweighed by the benefits and potential service life of the related wear components."
Long Story:
I know I have been bouncing back and forth. Basically I wanted to rebuild my dana 30 and put WJ knuckles with bigger brakes on it. I did not want to keep the steering that I had, because the WJ steering has better options. But then I found out that the bearing slipped on the OX locker, and destroyed it. That meant that the rebuild was going to be a lot more than anticipated, so I had to cut some costs. The complication comes from the 4.56 gears that I need. Building one is not cheap, I was planning on just doing bearing and seals, now I needed a new carrier, gears, locker, bearings and seals and I was trying to figure out what the best build combination would be, and so the WJ knuckles were sidelined and the steering will probably have to stay for a while.
I may have found a complete Dana 30 with 4.56 gears that I am going to pick up today. It has stock knuckles on it so I could get different steering, but I think that I will just transfer over my steering that I have with the drilled out knuckles and keep it the way it is for while and try to tighten everything up.
So it was one of those take it apart to fix one thing, find 20 other things wrong, and had to piece together a solution that I can afford. Tax refund only goes so far.