well its time to do it! been going back and forth over solid axle swap, or beef up the ifs?i need advice from people with experience with both.its seems like for about $2500 i can buy rcv extreme angle cv shafts and cognito everything(tie rods,idlers,gussets etc.)or for $4000-$6000 i can do a nice proper solid axle swap.axle swap is way more work,and money for a truck that still has a plastic transfer case(haha that'll be the next thing to grenade)or build up that ifs as good as i can, i would love to trade my 6" front bds lift kit for a 7"-8" lift so i could straighten out my cv angles a bit, but then the amount of work and money would be similar to the axle swap!does anyone have rcv xtreme ange cv shafts???does the dodge front axle that they use in the swap still use the push button 4wd hubs?and i know the abs works with it.any opinions are greatly appreciated.i know solid axle is the way to go but this truck will never be cut out for the 4x4ing i would be doing with a dana 60(to many other weak links) so its almost not worth the price...but on the other hand i could sink the $2500 into the ifs and still spit out cv's...

 

The $6000 solid axle swap is a hell of a lot of work. I saw a complete conversion a guy did on a 98 3500 with all home made parts with the exception of the axle. It was an amazing swap in the end, but very involved. I can't remember what site it was on, I know I saved it somewhere. I could post a link if you want me to dig it up. I'd love to see it done on an 01+. The ORU swap is a rip off. I wouldn't pay $17,000 for a damn conversion...and I like leafs rather than control arms.

No matter what you do to that IFS, it's still GM IFS...and it just can't take the off-road abuse that a true 4-wheeler can.

 

Why not just make/get a bigger drop bracket for the diff to flatten out the angles? shouldn't be to hard.

 

Or you could just buy a set of these for 1000.00......

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Or you can buy a dodge and get rid of the POS. Then you will have an indestructible SFA and tcase apparently...

 

ive straight axled 4 of these trucks it isnt 17000 or 20000 dollars. it runs 3-4 grand depending on how you want it. you can do a nice 8" lift or so for a decent price tag. if you want my advice on the straight axle conversion prefab brackets, offroad direct makes the best kit for the money. and i can say from experience, the 600 bucks for the SAS kit is worth waaaaaaaay more money than the headache of the prefab.