Beast from da Middle East

[DRAGOONRANCH]

I found the 39" shafts at Ron's Machining for a good bit cheaper than what Randy's offers them.

http://www.ronsmachiningservice.net/servlet/StoreFront

[DRAGOONRANCH]

Part # for refference 225SL-58A ( Detriot locker)

[DRAGOONRANCH]

Can some one with a highsteer chevy dana 60 measure their tie rod for me. I am thinking about going to a "rear" highsteer and want to run hiems on it to help out with some of the hydroassist issues I am having. WFO is the only one with rear facing tierod arms that i have come across so far, but I am still looking into it.

[colman]

brian has them from wfo rear flip. give him hell cause i bet he still hasn't given you the shaft measurements

[Sharpe]

Sky Mfg has double arms too. There's plenty of info on Pirate about arms.

[DRAGOONRANCH]

brian has them from wfo rear flip. give him hell cause i bet he still hasn't given you the shaft measurements

Sky Mfg has double arms too. There's plenty of info on Pirate about arms.

I talked to the ORD guy yesterday and he said they have never had any trouble before with theirs so I am going to try some 4deg shims that he recomended and try them first. As soon as I get home I am going to call up WFO and have him send me a new tierod with the heims on it to see if it helps with the 'roll' of the tie rod.

[agjohn02]

i would go with wfo. trevor is the man when it comes to customer service and their products are very nice.

[DRAGOONRANCH]

I got that impression while I was talkin with him the other night.

[DRAGOONRANCH]

I was able to get the broken 70 shaft out this afternoon. We found a long piece of 3/8" rebar and pushed it out of the axle. It was a fairly painless operation once we had a peice that was long enough and thin enough to go through the hole in the middle of the detroit. I don't know exactly how big the hole is, but I would take a guess and say that anything over 1/2" would not make it through.

When I went to install the new shafts, I found that they were the right length, correct spline count, but the wrong bolt pattern on the flanges. The pattern is a 3.56" spread on the axle, and the shafts had a 3.9" spread. Now I need to try and locate the correct shafts tomorrow. I am going to take the new ones down to Bryan tomorrow morning and see if someone can drill out the correct pattern on them (I should be able to weld up the existing holes with out too much trouble. Any thoughts on who would be the best place to take them to?

I am pretty sure the front slip shaft is down at the house, but I ran out of light to look for it, so I will be up bright and early to get the rest of it up to the driveway so I can get it all together.

[AggieTJ2007]

pictures please

[Reckless]

Glad tp see ya back. Ya might look in waco for a better machine shop. Creighton, what was that machine shop that did your D300 shift rails?

[Shaggy]

Vilas Motor Works is a good shop, tell them you are friends with Austin Roberts and they will be good to you. This is one of the times when Austin's name will actually help you

[Doug Krebs]

I was able to get the broken 70 shaft out this afternoon. We found a long piece of 3/8" rebar and pushed it out of the axle. It was a fairly painless operation once we had a peice that was long enough and thin enough to go through the hole in the middle of the detroit. I don't know exactly how big the hole is, but I would take a guess and say that anything over 1/2" would not make it through.

When I went to install the new shafts, I found that they were the right length, correct spline count, but the wrong bolt pattern on the flanges. The pattern is a 3.56" spread on the axle, and the shafts had a 3.9" spread. Now I need to try and locate the correct shafts tomorrow. I am going to take the new ones down to Bryan tomorrow morning and see if someone can drill out the correct pattern on them (I should be able to weld up the existing holes with out too much trouble. Any thoughts on who would be the best place to take them to?

I am pretty sure the front slip shaft is down at the house, but I ran out of light to look for it, so I will be up bright and early to get the rest of it up to the driveway so I can get it all together.

Is it just a bolt circle? I normally would say I could do it pretty easily, but it sounds like they are locking up campus pretty tight tomorrow. The off campus mill doesn't have a DRO.

Call me anyways, maybe I can get in.

[DRAGOONRANCH]

I got plenty accomplished today. The 4 deg. shims are in, along with the front anti-wrap. I rotated the ram mount forward and dropped it a bit to hopefully aleviate some of the problems we have had with the hydro-assist. I also mounted the rear BBCS shocks and replaced the two rear bolts holding the bed down (and I also put a new puck in the right side so hopefully I won't have the 'floppy bed syndrome' anymore ). It is wheelable now (other than needing another 70 shaft), just need to work on the tach and speedo, mount the second propane tank bracket set, wire the winch controler, and mount the radio and cb. I will get some pictures up tomorrow when I get back from the JYds.

[DRAGOONRANCH]

here are a few pics...

front antiwrap bracket


front shackle angle (I think I may push the front hangers back an inch or two and see if it helps on the flex a bit.)



I think I am going to move the shackle flip hangers forward a bit also to see if it helps some.


bbcs installed


top shock mount (nothin real serious, but turned out decent)