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Originally Posted by BMFScout
you sure they are too close? mine are 2" apart, center to center, which leaves about 3/16" between the tre's.
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Originally Posted by BMFScout
you sure they are too close? mine are 2" apart, center to center, which leaves about 3/16" between the tre's.
If John Cox says 2" is enough, that's good enough for me. They are 2" center to center. That looks way to close to me, but I guess not. Woo-hoo, I may have badass arms after all!
ah, but i dont run chevy wonton tre's
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the O.D. of the tre body on mine are 1.75". see if yours are similar.
tomorrow, I went to bed at 8:00 tonight and just woke up for 20 minutes, back to sleep. Looks like Seguin and Mitch got the last laugh after all, I'm beat!
wonton TRE is 2.25" across, no worky...
ream them at an angle away from each other
haha...no
DL on top, TR on bottom
those ends are not one ton tie rod ends they are 1/2 ,3/4, 1 ton chevy 4x4 bomerang drag link ends, gonna have to find some specifically for those type of ends I bet.Quote:
Originally Posted by BMFScout
yeah, that's what I meant, what he said. I don't know wtf to do. Anyone want to buy a scout, will trade for a vette?
can't weld them up and taper them farther apart?
maybe, just seems kind of ghetto, but I guess it would work. (have you seen the rest of my truck!)
did you know i tapered one of my arms on the wrong side so i welded it up and tapered it on the other side........... don't know if you don't tell
yeah, but your jeep is a pile anyway!! ;) :flipoff2: I'll think about it, but drilling and tapering probably happens on $50,000 machines at your place right? I have a 1952 drill press, pretty sure that is a good recipe for fawking something up. Right now we're taking all the crap off of mine and trying to get Fred's to work again, then I will figure out wtf to do with mine. I'm going to take my time and not stress about it though. It becomes less enjoyable to work on when you stress about ****.
yeah, things become a lot less enjoyable to work on especially when you have two daily driven vehicles' a/c compressors blow up in the same week. It really doesn't motivate you to want to work on much else.
Swap in a D60!
...and get some more triangulation on that cage.
your box is full freddy.
4runner has clear title. everything looks to be in good shape cept the dash and it just needs to be put back together. id drive it if i felt like replacing a head gasket. it looks better than my truck.
Flemco is going to drill/taper two more holes in the first set of arms I got and hopefully this will work with the Wagoneer arm. I'm attempting to get it all together for the redenck run since my motorcycle went to Missouri. I can't imagine what it would be like to actually be able to steer a truck off-road. :gigem:
Well the shakedown run was down the street at 2 am, a donut out in a field, and back to the house onto the trailer. The PSC stuff is all mounted up minus the ram part. It steers f'n great, I hope it continues this greatness. AN fittings are expensive. ($17
for a 90 deg. into a hose barb deal)
I also installed my super cool rearview mirror (a big blind spot mirror mounted on the door frame) Also, my CD player started working again for no reason, woo-hoo!!
I decided to go ahead and get the ram on there before the trip. I scratched my head for a little while tonight and decided on top of the spring plate will be the only suitable spot to mount the axle end. If it was foolsize it would be easier. I don't like that idea, but it's the only solution. I'm going to make a brace that bolts to the spring plate to help reinforce it. It think it will be ok. Pics to follow.
is there room to mount it between the knuckle and spring plate?
If not, do you think you could weld tubes to the axle for the ubolts to pass through? I'd be worried about drivers side center pin
I'd have to make some crazy ass tower that wraps around the front of the axle or something because the shock is mounted there behind it.Quote:
Originally Posted by robertf03
Here's my engineering drawing.
red=spring pack
black lines= axle tube
blue lines = my high clearance spring plates flipped upside down so they kind of wrap the pack.
The green is the gusset for the plate that will go just under the side of the spring plate and bolt to it with a couple of bolts to keep it from going side to side. I'll cut an access hole in that plate to get the bolts in and out.
I don't see how it can't work!! :gigem:
I can take some pics and get ideas if you guys want, I don't know how else to make it work, it's very tight with the tie rod up high like that.
here's the only pics I have, but you can kind of get the idea.
the shock is a little farther forward now b/c I redid the upper mounts. I need to make some bumpstops as well which I could make into the top of the cylinder mount maybe? I can't do that if the cylinder passes over the spring plate. I'm open to ideas, this is all I've came up with so far.
what about building a truss over the pumpkin to weld to
Mounting the cylinder to the spring plate seems prety popular, why are you opposed to doing it that way? If you wanted to get fancy you could build your little gusset so that the u-bolts pass through it instead of (or maybe in addition to) the bolts you had planned.
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Originally Posted by agjohn02
I think it'd be too close to the oilpan? Plus I want the ram to mount closer to the center of the tie rod correct? I thought about doing a rock ring and mounting it to that as well, but there isn't room.
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Originally Posted by BMFScout
ah, yes, i forget about the IH oilpan
i like the first pic i posted the best. the other two look very "I wheel a Scout, and fit into the clayton social scene very well".
the first picture isn't working
ah, if you copy and paste the link it comes up.
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Originally Posted by BMFScout
good point. it will lessen the likelyhood of the tie rod buckling.
looked at it again tonight, think I can do something like the first one but it will be close. Fab starts tomorrow night, it was too cold to work outside and Fred was fixing his lockright inside the shop.
Here is the start to the ram mount. It's 3/16" plate, going to box both ends. Simple, and hopefully effective.
Lookin' good so far.
Couldn't work on it yesterday, got the mounts together today. I then noticed that I never got a hose kit with this. Fawking PSC. I'm going to try and see if they will get me one, but if someone called me 8 months after they ordered something and said they didn't get part of their kit, I would tell them to get bent. We'll see how it goes. I put the hole in the bracket because I saw St.John do it and figured that's what the cool kids do, so I would too.