8.8 swap

drilling plugs and pressing out the axles is the best way to do it, but itll take a 10 ton body ram to press out the tube and a 20 tone to push it back in according to another site. Good welder should do it up, the tube is about 1/4 inch thick. Great call on the #3 pipe cutter. I was all ready to use mine but I guess its a #2, too small so I ghetto sawzalled it and went though about 20 minutes of additional set up time for the truing of the new section. In retrospect, the best way I found to get the tubes parallel was to stand the fixed section on end and use a post level on it, then secure it and use the same post level on the welded side (if you weld the entire tube from the center like I did foolishly). Its a great mod, perhaps in my future projects buit I like my matched 5 on 4 disc/drum bolt pattern. Maybe redrilled axles.