Also you need to put silacone on you distributer cap to keep the water out. also they make a jelly type stuff that you can put in the end of you spark plug wires to keep the from corroding if you get them wet and it gives them better connectivity.
first off, you are going to need to get you a good set of heim joints with weld in bungs or really thick tubing, not pipe, and have it threaded. if you get the tubing with a 3/8 wall you can have it threaded, but less than that you will need to ha...
a dana 44 will work well in a rodo. the only thing you have to worry bout is putting the right springs under it. the rodeo is os short in the front the best thing to go with would be a toyota spring. my personally i would do coil overs with a tria...