1995 xlt switching auto to manual hubs

[okimeister]

can anyone tell me if i can just switch my auto hubs to the manual using warn premiums, or do i need a kit to do the switch.

thanks

 

[bluesman17]

if you have 5 bolts you can just switch if you have 3 you need the conversion kit.

 

[BLADE262US]

My 95 had the 3 bolt autos on it I did put manuals on it and did not do the coversion I see why they say you need too but what I did is the retaining nut is not the normal round with 4 cutouts in it for the normal 4x4 nut wrench . Once you wipe all the grease off youll see that it is a very big nut on the back toward the bearing . If you took it off and laid it on the table it would look like a nut about 3/16 or so thick with a round shoulder sticking up about 1 1/2 inches . Now if you look in the end of this nut it is threaded all the way through and there is about a 1/16 to 1/8th recess in the very end of it , Then there is about a 1/16 hole drilled straight down from this recess into the threaded area . This nut is what sets your bearing preload and holds the bearings on the spindle . The keeper for this style is different than the old style which was a washer with a key way and a bunch of holes around it that settled over a pin that stuck out from the back nut and the key on the washer lined up with a keyway on the spindle . This new style has a C shaped peice of metal with a leg that stick down off it about 3/4 of an inch kinda like a ? with the leg bent straight down . Now the leg goes in that hole in the nut I talked about and the c shape goes around the spindle then pushes into the recess in the end of that nut and sits there . When the auto locking guts are put in they go against that clip and hold it in place so when you cover to manuals there is nothing to hold it in place so there worried abotu the clip working its way out and the wheel falling off . What I did was squeeze the c part together a bit so that it snapped over the axle kinda locked on its a bitch to get it back off but its been that way for over 100,000 miles and never came off . You can feel if your wheel bearings are coming loose so you would know something was wrong should it ever come out . If you are going to do the swap I would recomend changing the nut to the old style 2 nuts and a washer but I dont know if Id pay the $50 they want for there conversion kit . Those nuts can be found on any dane 44 axle that had lockouts , ( bronco2,ranger,F150,F250,chevy trucks) all of which can be found in the junkyard for cheap . /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />