I was about to say, its a janky idea at best, whatever you are doing. :)
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I was about to say, its a janky idea at best, whatever you are doing. :)
heat was not so good on karls gas tank jb weld repair.
When I was "fixing" the dirt bike gas tank it was cold outside, so I got my heat gun, applied to the JB Weld and the results where horrible. Heat makes JB weld's viscocity turn into that of water, the crap started flowing everywhere. I would not recommend it.Quote:
Originally Posted by afroman006
Cracked the aluminum lower intake plenum on my crewcab's go-fitty-fo. A new one is $450 (A&M cost...) and I have no desire to remove the intake to have the crack TIG'd until absolutely neccesary. The crack is about an inch long starting at a threaded hole and coolant seeps through it fairly rapidly. I got some leak stopper from napa called Dike and it stopped the leak within about 10 minutes of driving. Made it all the way to Houston and back today and still no leaks so I'd say its good to go. I put some JB weld on top of the crack just for good measure yesterday while the motor was hot before the trip and will concur that yes, its viscosity goes to **** when hot. Oh well, problem solved...for now...
anyone else had this problem with heims?
the heims for my steering ram are 5/8 and the bolt was a tight fit when i put in on. (both heims)
right before i loaded it on the trailer at trees i noticed a little play in the steering wheel.
i took out the bolt from the ram and there is a good 1/4 play from side to side between the bolt and the ID of the heim.
i will take it off again later and get a picture, but both heims were exactly the same way.
the bolt still fits in the tabs perfectly so the wear is in the heims themselves
WTF???
cheap heims?
sound like it or they got stretched
so just get some better heims?Quote:
Originally Posted by AggieTJ2007
these are the ones that came from PSC. this is the first real trip with them, they were fine after clayton.
i do not want to buy new heims after every trip i go on.
I have the PSC ones, and still no play in them. Maybe somebody took your good ones and swapped in their wore ones to be super cheap??? :flipoff2:
5/8, or 5/8 x 3/4? 5/8 x 5/8 is a pretty small heim, in that size and application I would get the baddest dude money could buy. If you can upgrade to 5/8x3/4 even better. Surprised PSC would spec something that wouldn't hold up though. Is the heim sitting on threads?
i have psc one too and no play, i would call/e-mail psc and see what they say about them
5/8 is the size of the ID of the heim (size of the bolt) the thread should be a 3/4 x 16 ( i think )Quote:
Originally Posted by uglyota
no it is not sitting on threads.
guess i could go bigger but its going to suck drilling out those holes with a hand drill now.
i looked on the PCS website and i could not find replacement heims to find out what brand they were.
you must have just gotten a bunk heim. 5/8x3/4 (5/8 bore, 3/4 shaft) are stronger than 3/4x3/4. I wouldn't go bigger
I would call up PSC first, they always seem to have outstanding customer service and may make it right for you. Can you mic the bolt and the heim to see where the actual play is?
ya thats what i was thinking, pull it off and get some measurements, then call up LanceQuote:
Originally Posted by DRAGOONRANCH
"your busting my balls lance, busting my balls"
im interested in how this works out because I will be running the same setup
numbers are rounded (digital caliper would not turn on - accuracy not all that great) <-- harbor freight
bolt ~~15.5-15.8 mm = 0.6102209105 inch = ~ 39/64 - 5/8
drivers side heim 19mm = 0.748012729 inch = ~ 3/4
passenger side heim 18.5mm = 0.7283281835 inch = ~ 23/32 - 47/64
I have not had any problems with my heim on my steering. Call Lance he will make it right.
alright, ill give him a call todayQuote:
Originally Posted by Busa
x2, and hurry, only a couple of weeks left!Quote:
Originally Posted by Busa
Take some pictures of it if you get a chance, that is some weird numbers and I would like a visual reference of this if possible.
i will get some pics this weekend and a better caliper or a batteryQuote:
Originally Posted by DRAGOONRANCH
like i said its not very accurate, its basically got stretched from 5/8 to 3/4
meh.. no help
he just said i have it set up wrong and that i am hitting my steering stops and causing it to stretch the heims and that my knuckles are next.
... not true, i understand how a ram works and set it up so that it does not even touch the steering stops (if you crank it in either direction the entire way you heard the pump bark... meaning the ram is done moving)
i asked him if he has heard of this problem before and he just said ::chuckles:: "i sell thousands of these things a day... its not the heims"
so i told him i would just go buy some new heims somewhere.
what a dick. Did he ever think that maybe there is something defective about the heims? I'm not sure when I'll have full hydro, but I think I'll looks somewhere else when the time comes.
maybe take pictures and send him and email showing what the problem and that what he says is happening is indeed not happening.Quote:
Originally Posted by J Cooper
Im not sure I would have written it off that quickly is i was him.
last time i talked to him he seemed ok, but any other encounter i have ever had with PSC was that they were kinda douchebags.
talked to them at a couple events and they were always rude.
ill just get my heims somewhere else, not a big deal
i understand what he is saying, but i do not think it is because something i have set up wrong. i will check everything out again.Quote:
Originally Posted by jerryg79
i dont care to waste my time explaining my self to him, i will just buy some new ones.
he said the weight of a vehicle turning is not going to stretch a heim, you have something set up wrong.
man, that is out of character from all I have heard and from my own dealings. My next call would be to get ahold of Sean at POS. Good luck with it though.
the pump will chirp if it hits the stops too, anything that causes the ram to bind
well i will check everything out again to see if anything is binding. that is why i did not want to argue with him about it, but he could have at least considered what i said to be true.Quote:
Originally Posted by DRAGOONRANCH
hell scott was there when we set it up, he knows it was not hitting the stops.
what a dick...take pictures of the setup and heims with calipers, start thread on pirate describing conversation, send him the thread
hell he is probably reading all this right now
i am just going to triple check everything on my end first, and then i can be a dick
i would still just rather not deal with them anymore.
when i ordered their "kit" i had to have them send me lines they did not include (twice) and then they sent me the wrong heims (two lefts)
solution
http://www.howeperformance.com/rockcrawling.html
Their **** works good, I was less than impressed with the turnaround time on my steering box and missed a run for the first time ever because of it.
You can't make enough force with that pump/cylinder to stretch a decent heim.
I looked up the heims included with his kits. He's scraping the bottom of the barrel. Plain low carbon steel. Can't cost him more than $5 each. I'm pretty sure noone would knowingly buy this crap for their rig. Who was it that thought I had cheap heims on my steering?
Even these $12 ones from Jegs are more than twice as strong.
http://www.jegs.com/p/QA1/1138839/10002/-1
Just get something in chrome moly. I use the Summit black max. Jegs had some beefier looking ones I know a couple others here have used but I don't see them on their web site anymore.
What seems really weird to me is that the hole in the ball of the heim would wallow out. Seems like the "eye" (part that holds the ball to the shaft) would stretch instead.
think these are any good?
made by M.O.R.E.
http://www.tellico4x4.com/product_in...ducts_id/23294
Should be good. A little high. Don't think you could go wrong with them. I'd go with ones made by a real bearing manufacturer. QA1, FKM, etc. I doubt MORE makes their own anyway.
Ryan are Aurora any good? I remember specs being good on them and they're popular with the dirt track crowd but never heard them mentioned in rockcrawler discussion
whats the best company/price for BOLT on rear d-60 disk brake brackets? I'm thinking bluetorchfab?
d60?Quote:
Originally Posted by 85cj7
i know your a jeep fag. but there are other companies besides BTF.
http://www.ruffstuffspecialties.com/...wer-p-372.html
why do you want bolt on vs weld on?
look at balistic or diy4x4