Lots of good options for Dana 44's, and a lot of good information from some very knowledgeable folks above. However, when your setting up your budget on these axle. Please look into a good set of shafts for what I'm assuming would be an early waggy 44. I don't know if you have them already or but a lot of the early waggoneer rear axles were offset to the passenger side and getting a chromoly shaft for them is difficult. If you do wind up with a detroit in the back and a 40 year old factory shaft, it will break and it will damage the detroit. The fronts are a little better, there's a bunch of off the shelf kits for them. But again, please don't spend $1000 on a selectable front locker with factory shaft, with ujoints from who knows when. Get a good strong axle and pick out a good locker and do it once. I very rarely talk to someone who says they regret putting a good selectable locker in a trail rig, but a lot of guys who settle for what they can afford at the time will call back within a year and say "man I should have just built it like I wanted to the first time, now I'm doing it twice."
