Pigpen

[DRAGOONRANCH]

looks like this, only not as clean...

[Sharpe]

Got my shock mounts done, they came out prety nice. No pics though, my camera disappeared during/after the Spring Creek trip. If someone finds a small point and shoot canon, probably mine. Ed's grandpa dropped off his old draglink for me. It is bent to clear a stock chevy engine crossmember but I need a straight one. I am giving up on mine. I dont have the time or inclination to mess with it. The plan for now is to cut the threaded ends off Ed's draglink and weld them into a piece of tube to make it the right length. If I can get that done this afternoon, I can get it turned around and start on the rear axle.

[Sharpe]

Ed's draglink and Clarke's rockwell tierod are now kludged into a Pigpen draglink.

[KrazyKarl02]

hmm, welding on steering components, excellent!

[Sharpe]

People use weld-in threaded bungs for tierods and draglinks all the time. I just "made" my own bungs.

[AggieTJ2007]

sounds safe enough for me

[CheapJeep]

I'll look for your camera when I go home for turkey day. Probably fell out of your pocket when you passed out on the couch...

[stx4wheeler]

By made your own bung do you mean welded some jam nuts together? If so I have done that in a pinch.

[Sharpe]

By made your own bung do you mean welded some jam nuts together? If so I have done that in a pinch.

Jesus****ingchrist no! I cut the ends off a threaded draglink and welded them into a larger piece of tube. There is at least 3-4" of thread in the ends I cut off.

[stx4wheeler]

Jesus****ingchrist no! I cut the ends off a threaded draglink and welded them into a larger piece of tube. There is at least 3-4" of thread in the ends I cut off.

Hehehe

[Hot Pocket]

By made your own bung do you mean welded some jam nuts together? If so I have done that in a pinch.

Where's Ed when you need him? All this talk about bungs and pinchin jam nuts.

[DRAGOONRANCH]

The draglink definitely fits with the motif of the truck.

[Sharpe]

So the ****ing jeep pitman arm will not work with my uber-bitchin shock mounts. It swings too far out and hits the shock body, and there really isnt any better place to mount the shock. I *can* run my old pitman but the unnecessary drop will limit my uptravel, and I dont have that much to start with. If anyone local has an extra pitman arm laying around with the indexing splines perpendicular and parallel to the arm, I would like to borrow or buy it. If you need it for something, I will just borrow it to check fit and then try to find one myself. Something off a Ford or larger Jeep is most likely to work but it you have any with the correct spline orientation that has roughly the same amount of droop as the top arm in the pic at the top of the page I'm interested. I do not want to heat and bend a pitman, that is ghetto.

In other news, I got the front tires back on and it looks great. It sits almost a foot lower at the hood than before and is prety level. I just need to build bumpstop mounts and then the front suspension is GTG.

[Reckless]

i might have one here

[Sharpe]

Go check...