Welding c's on shitty axle tubes? No thanks. I sold the hubs to save for a PR44.
yup. and I had to truss the hell out of it.
eventually I sold it and just built a junk yard 3/4 ton 44 from a ford that was a lot stronger.
I really enjoy building axles so a lot of this was just me putzing in the garage.
I once took a bent rubi housing and cut the tubes off at the housing. I bored the housing to accept tubes and C's from a ford axle that were cut to JK spec so it used off the shelf JK parts. I only had about $250 into the housing with the stronger C's.
the hub kits are just too much money and the 5 on 4.5" hubs are too weak to take off road.