Jeep Mods. Round 2.

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10-04-2005, 07:50 PM
fbronco86

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Originally Posted by Doug Krebs

no, but you should see the amount of 1" plate I have. You need some?

Hey I might need some of that plate for this new project i am working on :flipoff2:
10-04-2005, 09:44 PM
BMFScout

I saw these girls that were "so so" looking at the airport bar last Friday, they were talking to this "Mike" looking dude. I thought to myself, I bet those b!tches are in pharmecutical sales...
11-14-2005, 11:35 PM
Sharpe

Leaf springs to coils! Nice comparison.
11-14-2005, 11:49 PM
bburris

Good job Captain Obvious.
11-15-2005, 12:14 PM
BMFScout

still doing the watts linkage?
11-15-2005, 06:26 PM
Shaggy

done
11-20-2005, 11:28 PM
eight

The lower links really do weigh about 50 lbs each without joints. This stuff's gonna weigh quite a bit more than the leafs did. It's moving along. I just don't work as fast as in my younger days. Got all the dam brackets made and tacked on.
11-20-2005, 11:34 PM
mudtoy67

Quote:

Originally Posted by TxCruzr

There was a cruiser awhile back that had a watts linkage. Really neat and stable but not so flexy. Granted he had huge tires and not alot of room so he might have limited it. It looks kind of complicated to get it setup right and be strong. Any perticular reason your going that way or just want to give it a shot? If anyone can make it work, your crazy polish ass can.

I think his lack of flex was he was running a radius arm setup, not a four link. The watts link was pretty trick.
11-20-2005, 11:48 PM
uglyota

I know I'm dumb, but I don't see how a watts linkage makes any sense in rockcrawling.
Seems like any amount of vertical travel of the whole axle (ie both tires droop) and the Watts would try to rotate the axle and eventually bind
You using square tubing for those links?
11-20-2005, 11:52 PM
eight

Quote:

Originally Posted by uglyota

You using square tubing for those links?

Nope, just my regular sleeved with drill stem.
11-21-2005, 01:41 PM
Shaggy

can you show me a pic of a watts linkage... this is a foreign term to me and i dont feel like searching
11-21-2005, 01:51 PM
mudtoy67

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shaggy

can you show me a pic of a watts linkage... this is a foreign term to me and i dont feel like searching

http://www.opentracking.com/WattsLink-TA.JPG

Here is a Watts link. I imagine Kopecki's would be mounted on top of the axle with the center link bar mounted horizontally...that's how I've seen it before on a 4x4.
11-21-2005, 02:47 PM
AggieTJ2007

you got any pictures Kopecki
11-21-2005, 03:45 PM
davido

So it's a weird 3-link with opposing panhard bars?
11-21-2005, 04:23 PM
Matt Conlee

That guy from top truck challenge with the blue FJ was in Clayton one year with a track bar set up like that but it was horizontal on top of the diff

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