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I have a Dana 44 under my BII that was bought off of Ebay and supposedly came out of a '74 EB. I have a damaged spindle and need a replacement. There are no EB's on the yards close to home and both Advance and Auto Zone tell me they cannot even order it. Anyone know if the same spindles were used on full size Broncos or maybe F-150's or any other vehicle?

i would think any 44 with drum brakes will work

Time to switch to disc brakes, any d44 should work.

I got a pair that I'm not using . I changed mine over to disk brakes out of a 79' model ford truck . If you use 79' spindles you will have to change axle shafts because they are bigger . Bronco graveyard has the inner shafts to make them work.

shannon22 wrote:I got a pair that I'm not using . I changed mine over to disk brakes out of a 79' model ford truck . If you use 79' spindles you will have to change axle shafts because they are bigger . Bronco graveyard has the inner shafts to make them work.

Not correct. I did use 79 spindles on my 73 axle with stock 73 shafts for several years until one failed. If you use 79 axles you need to use the 79 spindles, they will not fit in 73 spindles.

The reason I changed my axles is because the 79' model ones used a bigger u-joint and the seal looked different so I used the stock 79' outers and ordered shorter inner shafts that used the bigger u-joint .

clem wrote:Time to switch to disc brakes, any d44 should work.

Only solid axle GM 44 will work. Otherwise a knuckle swap is needed tooThe TTB axle uses a different bolt pattern on the spindle flange where it mounts to the knuckle. Most common and plentiful are the GM spindles, to use them though you need everything from spindle out GM.
Left hand inner axle and both outer axles from a solid axle disc brake Ford 44 will fit a EB axle with no mods, right hand inner must be shortened and resplined.

It's a drum brake Ford 6 bold spindle, I don't know what all they are on since they are not really desirable. I would look on any EB specific site and you should be able to get one cheap. I would look for the small bearing Chevy spindles, backing plates and calipers, then buy new hub rotors for about $30ea and do the disc swap.

EBSTEVE wrote:It's a drum brake Ford 6 bold spindle, I don't know what all they are on since they are not really desirable. I would look on any EB specific site and you should be able to get one cheap. I would look for the small bearing Chevy spindles, backing plates and calipers, then buy new hub rotors for about $30ea and do the disc swap.

Steve, you pointed something there I forgot, and almost gave bad info on! I did edit my earlier post to show the only spindle directly a bolt on to do disc is a GM, knuckle swap is needed for Ford 44 disc. I apologize for not thinking.