Stock birf's won't hold up, but Long's Super Birf's will. I've been running a spooled front end w/ Long's for over a year now.

Nothing wrong with welding the front diff. Steering effort and turning radius increases a bunch, and the PS pump gets a real work out. I use synthetic ATF in the PS to help from burning the fluid.

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