What did it cost you to do a solid front axle if you don't mind me asking???
Bought a fully built Dana 44 1k
Thor parts hubs for ABS $350-400? I gotta go back and check I forgot.
Coil springs free from my brothers JK until I swapped em for bronco springs $150
Shocks- I spent $150 I found a place selling bilsteins cheap
Steering box-$150 ebay box used with 100k on it. its going out but it beats buy a box new and paying $250 for a damn core. Now I have a core for a new box.
Bracketry-$400ish (lots of random brackets)
Power steering lines and adapters- $100ish
Johnny joints for link mounts-$350
DOM tubing- $100
Tie rod and drag link-$240
track bar tubing and heim joints-$140
Brakelines- $70 (Normally more but I only bought front two, had the rears)
Now that I have the bulk of the work done I can slowly add stuff. I want badass King shocks one day. I will add em but there was no way I could add em now, too much $. Air bumps (good for high speed) I can add later and replace the bumpstops I am putting on now. Add ram assist later. I did it as cheap as I could without taking shortcuts and regretting it later.
Then I sold some parts that helped. I also slowly bought parts since january. Maybe once a paycheck or two just slowly adding to the pile.
I also desperately need a front end rebuild so I was planning on dropping some money on that so I just jumped the gun and did the SAS. New rack, hubs, shocks, bushings, etc. It probably would of been 500-1000 so that helped.
Lastly, labor. Labor would be more then all the parts.