I am getting ready to do the Rubicon Dana 44 swap. My axle arrived this past week and it looks fresh with little to no rust. I am cleaning it up, repainting it and will install this week. WOO HOO. The bonuses are its a Rubicon axle with air locker, it has disk brakes, low mileage, bolt in.
In the process I found a 4.10 locked Cherokee HP Dana 30 e-locker 91,000 miles for the front almost free, so my 235000 mile LP open dana 30 is coming out also. This will be getting refreshed with Alloy USA Front Axle Manual Locking Hub Conversion Kit, Vanco 16" Big Brake Kit.
The rest of the build I will be rebuilding a dana 300 I have been saving for this. It is getting Behemoth flip kit, JB Conversions 32 spline front & rear and 4-to-1 Low-Max gears joining with the AA flip ring and dual cable shifters. Hopefully this will give me flat abbs with a lot more belly clearance.
to finish it up new drive-lines from DriveLinesNW. I will start a page to track this build and post photos as I go.