whats with the welded kingpin caps?
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whats with the welded kingpin caps?
its to protect the grease fitting that screws in. don't want it getting broken off.
ok, i see now, good idea or you could get a flush mount grease fitting, also pretty hard to break off that grease fitting
still debating on tre's or heims.
Go to harbor freight and get one of their beaing puller sets. comes with a two jaw puller and accessories. Take the two jaws and grind the tooth a little narrower on the end, so that it will fit under the bearing in the puller grooves on the carrier. Assemble the puller into position, then get a c-clamp and put it across the two jaws to hold them together on the bearing. Use an impact to crank the puller. You'll have to find/make something to fit the end of the carrier for the bolt to push against. This method works about 61.813% of the time, the rest just have to get a new bearing.
Or get one of these...I'm planning on buying one of these pretty soon...should make gear swaps a bit easier: http://completeoffroad.com/wsm/i-61_...ng_puller.html
i have a puller you can barrow, did you ever determine if that carrier will fit 4.10 gears?
what gears were on the carrier the brake is at 3.92
don't know
Capital bearing over by BOTCO, whats the other one?
gears have been set for two weeks. finally going to have time to put it under the truck tomorrow
did the gear puller i lent you work
no, it was too small. i'll drop it off sometime this week
axle is under the truck. the guy i ordered parts from sent me the wrong lenth spindle studs so im stuck waiting for those.
the city is on my ass now for the truck sitting too long :rolleyes:
looks like the springs got a little more arch now, i still say you need to take those shims out, put an angle finger on the kingpin caps and see what the caster is.
dad is looking for the steering should be here sunday
Girl's love em!Quote:
Originally Posted by RCcola55
PS why don't you put some tires in the front wheel wells. It would look a ton better.
the 3 we are using on brian's front d60 ( we checked they are long enough etc) are from oreiley's they usually keep 1 or more at each store. i can get a part number later or you can drop off my puller and look at them yourself. i will probably forget so you may want to call me
what are the measurements?
9/16 3.25 wide at least 8.5 long
10 5/8 long 3 3/8 wide 9/16 thich part # 35645 HELP is the brand
4 wheel parts was cheaper and had the right size. even though they ****ed up the last order i had, i ordered from them.
steering. so heims or tre's and dle's?
i've heard that heims don't have enough misalignment to be used on drag links. dle's have the most degree of range. are they weaker? do people use the drag link hole in the right tre on chevy ends? both seem to be in about the same price range. if heims will work, i'd rather use them so i don't have to ream holes.
Unless your arms are double-shear I would tend to think TRE's would be better. I know plenty of people run heims on a single shear bolt but it seems like the bolt hole would begin to wallow out after some hard wheeling. Yes reaming is a PITA but I'd say its probably worth it. Not to mention if you broke a TRE on a trip it'd probably be easier to find than a heim in a podunk town parts store.
where is the reamer that you had?
tre's - my vote. street legal too.
Its Garrett's, and he's in the land down under until further notice.
mine is in shupes tool box
i dunno cook between the heim and tre debate I drove eb garretts bronco with the tre's and it was fawking scary how loose it was. Clarke said his were pretty damn loose as well. My heims are about a year old and i have no complaints about them at all, they havent had lots of street miles on them though
Missed the debate but if it is anything about saying that heims dont last on the street and get loose, then you're using cheap heims. Have about 6 or 7 years on mine with who knows how many thousands of street and highway miles and they are just as tight as the day I got them.
As far as tre's being street legal, I would really like to see a cop give someone a ticket for using heims.
i have the qa1 heims and like them
got the ends of the 60 put together.
looks good with the black wheels cook
I predict you will hate those wheels in the future.
better not get bigger tires or you won't be able to fit it under the car port, and of course then it will rain when you need to fix something
i already suspect itQuote:
Originally Posted by eight
why?Quote:
Originally Posted by RCook527
16.5 regular wheels lose beads if you look at them wrong
Hell they're steel! Put a mig welder on the lowest setting and run a bead or 2 where the safety bead should be.Quote:
Originally Posted by RCook527
rim screws!
weld the tre's in... :flipoff2:
How soon would you need it?
Square would make it easy to adjust the toe!