Tonight I decided to take on the rather un-glamorous job of stripping rusty dirty old diffs down.
Frikkin hate the smell of scungy old rotten gear oil. YUK. The smell lingers around for days after
In order to build myself a set of wide track axles (100mm wider than standard) with disc braked front, free wheeling hubs and cross over steering, I need the parts from
no less than 6 diffs 
The parts List:
Late model LJ50/LJ80 front and rear housings
Late model LJ50/LJ80 front and rear axle shafts
LJ50 4.88 ratio front and rear Diff heads
Late model LJ50/LJ80 front and rear diff side gears
SJ410 CV joints
SJ413 swivel housings, disc brakes and free wheeling hubs
SJ413 steering draglink
So tonight I stripped two LJ50 axles, two LJ80 axles, and braved the shitty weather to drag a wheel barrow load of SJ413, SJ410 and Misc lj80 axle parts across the gully from the hay shed in the dark. We've had 5 days of steady rain, driving across wasn't an option, even in The50
So my shed kinda looks like this at the moment
LJ80 on this side:
LJ50 on this side:
The important hubs and and brakes:
Some other spare LJ80 axles rescued from a couple of rusted through housings a while back
And last but not least, the very special mint SJ410 cV's, somehow they have survived years of storage and still look mint
So I have to move the spring purches in by 50mm on the housings, split the diff heads open and swap side gears around, remove the SJ413 CVs from the hubs, remove the LJ80 axles from the CV's, fit to the LJ80 to the SJ410 CVs, fit them to the SJ413 swivel hubs, service wheel bearings, fit swivel hub rebuild kit, rebuild brakes, new rotors bla bla bla.
Any LJ buffs know what Ratio the LJ20 diffs are?? We discovered the other day that a rolling chassis I bought for $2 about 3 years ago for spare axle parts, is in fact a LJ20 chassis. Its got complete diffs still. Might have an even higher ratio than the LJ50 heads maybe??
