Nice job. :thumbup:
The img tag works nice for pictures instead of url.
The img tag works nice for pictures instead of url.
I just finished my over the knuckle heim steering set up. I looked at BTF's bracket and Off Road Only’s U – Turn steering and others. I actually purchased the BTF bracket and it hit on the spring and the original track bar bracket. It would have been way too much modification to make it work, so I chose to return the bracket to BTF with no problem.
Then decided to fab my own set up. I found using 1 1/2 x 1/4 wall chromoly tubing over the knuckle that there were a lot of interference issues. It seemed the easy way was to get the tie rod and drag link mounting points forward and in slightly.
Driver side bracket-
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Passenger side bracket-
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The brackets are attached at the original tie rod end hole (drilled out to 5/8”), at the two forward wheel bearing bolts and an additional attach point on the out side of the bracket directly to the forward arm of the knuckle.
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Here you can see the original tie rod location and the new location, driver side (forward and in).
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Here you can see the original tie rod location and the new location, passenger side (forward and in).
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The result of this was the tie rod is forward 1 ½” and 3+/- above its original location.
I used ¾” heims from Dan @ Ruff Stuff and 1 ½” x ¼” wall chromoly tubing and ¼” steel plate purchased at Competitive Metals locally.
My total cost including tubing, heims w/ bungs & spacer, steel plate, f911 and grade 8 bolt and nuts, including a complete second set of fasteners…$175.00
I took it out and it drives great. In fact the steering has never felt this good since before any lift.