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I wouldn't go cutting tubes and all that, its not worth the trouble just to change gears. In order to change the gears in the D44 you may need to get a different carrier for it. For the 12bolt rear you can get gears that will fit your current carrier just fine. I think you will have trouble finding a set of whole 1/2 ton axles with 3.73 gears, most of them had 3.08 or 3.42's.
I don't think swapping whole third members would be any easier at all than just swapping gears. To swap the hogs head your going to need to cut the tubes off put in new hogs head, make sure their really straight and weld them back. But if you pull the carrier out you will have to re-set the gears anyway.
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