Can I install a front axle with wide track ?

[jebiruph]

Here is a window sticker from a 2020 with 3.73.

Thanks for the correction, I must have not been paying attention to the diesels.

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[kevman65]

Boiled down, can you replace just the front? Yes.

Should you just replace the front? No.

If you want wide trac axles, replace the set.

 

[Serge23]

Boiled down, can you replace just the front? Yes.

Should you just replace the front? No.

If you want wide trac axles, replace the set.

We’ll sell me the set then I’ll buy them

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Seriously, do a junkyard search online. There are sites that will check nationally. Many keep track of what others have and refer back and forth.

 

[kgc]

I have a wide track ultimate 44 front axle and the narrower rear axle. It works fine. I also have 37” tires and a lot of poke, it might look sillier with OEM size tires. As far as looks go, it’s only ¾” per side.

 

[Florida Mojave]

Why don't you try to contact Americas Most Wanted 4x4 - they probably have some take offs you could purchase.....

 

[Boostnu]

I have a wide track ultimate 44 front axle and the narrower rear axle. It works fine. I also have 37” tires and a lot of poke, it might look sillier with OEM size tires. As far as looks go, it’s only ¾” per side.

I did the same for awhile and it was hardly noticeable. Unless I actually told you there was a difference you wouldn’t notice. No difference in driving or overall ride.

 

[Escape.idiocracy]

What’s the intended use of the Jeep??

If you are a Jeep wave, daily driver, hit a dirt road every now and then for a trail ride- cool carry on, look for a take off axle. ???

If, down the road you intend to go off road, find some rocks, maybe get stupid in the desert every now and then…..
https://fusion4x4.com/collections/jeep-gladiator-jt-2020-c37699195

Might be worth checking fusion out. They are probably the cheapest upgrade axle out there….

From the photo you posted ??

what to the control arms, control arm mounts, traction bar mounts…… what do these welds look like??
artech makes some replacement weld ones that bump the thickness up…..

In conclusion, this is not a cheap situation to get out of….. might be worth looking to “upgrade” your repairs.

 

[RudeJeepin]

That was posted in 2017, before JT production and at the beginning of JL production - and said "from internal sources" - so were any actually produced?

All the diesels have 3.73 gears, whether Wrangler or Gladiator, regardless of trim.

Most all older solid front axle pickup had wider front axles.
Jeep until the YJ came out had wider front axles than rear. My old CJ5 narrow track axles were 50.5 rear and 53 front. The wide track CJ axles were 54.5 rear and 56 front.

 

[bleda2002]

Non-rubicon 4xe wranglers have the gladiator hd wide front in 3.73 gears. Our Sahara 4xe has it on the build sheet

 

[Jteakus]

As said above all the diesels have 3.73's AND steel knuckles. A quality spacer on the rear can get you by for a while.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Non-rubicon 4xe wranglers have the gladiator hd wide front in 3.73 gears. Our Sahara 4xe has it on the build sheet

Weight and torque.

Most all older solid front axle pickup had wider front axles.

And 4x4 cars due to the need for a wider swing of the steering knuckles when turning. It's a matter of necessity in that case and it includes IFS, not just solid axles. In many cases the rear axle width matched the front. In the case of my car, it was a matter of economics - take an existing rear differential, flip the spring mounts and use it instead of building a special wider rear axle just for the production of that one vehicle.

My only thing is that I can look at my JT and tell the front axle isn't centered and it's off by only 1/2" or so. I'd see it as I see it now on a lesser difference.
I'd either find the correct axle (and they ARE out there, one just has to get off the forums and start calling or digging into salvage yards and do some searches. There was one for sale in these forums a year or so ago) or I'd swap both - or use spacers as these weren't built to hid the difference in axle widths.
I don't notice it on my car because of how they made the fender flares for the front. I only notice it when loading the car on a trailer and find the front tires run the outside of the ramps and the rears run the inside half of the ramps. Otherwise, looking, the designers hid that fact very well with the body molding and fender flares on those case. Took them a model year because the first year out the front tires hit the fenders on a turn. They then modified the fenders and used a different flare design and hid the difference.
Jeep bodies are made to have the same width front/rear and even a small shift of the front due to a lift is very noticeable.

 

[Serge23]

I found a rubicon diesel front axle but it has aluminum knuckles 3.73 wide with e locker will it work on the front of my gladiator ?

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