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-
Passenger side bracket-
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.
Here you can see the original tie rod location and the new location, driver side (forward and in).
Here you can see the original tie rod location and the new location, passenger side (forward and in).
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.