I have read many times that adding things like truss and full case locker helps reduce deflection and gears live longer... seems like splitting hairs on a D30 to me. If you have 3.07s, full case and Artec money would be much better spent regearing.
I've seen few D30s taco'd in front of me in Midwest. My thought was to make the D30 housing a good baseline then upgrade it's gears, shafts, locker, etc. later. It's hard to straighten a pretzeled housing haha
It's going to be a trail rig and I'm not going to be racing with some rice burners and it's 5 speed so I think 3.07 will be ok for now. Big pinion gear
I was asking about locker thing because I don't want to pay things twice and work on it twice when I could've done it once and forget it.
As of now my axles' plan are;
stock shafts with new spicer joints with snap rings
Open front, weld rear
Inner C truss
Sleeve tubes
Ruff Stuff covers
Artec's lower control arm mounts
Later;
Chromo shafts. if I break them... I never broke any D30 shafts with my XJ Heep 1.0 on 34" pizza cutter Swampers
Lockers
Gears
Phase 2;
1 ton axles?