heims for d30 crossover..

[Flowers]

If you use 1.25 x .281 wall you dont have to drill and you can tap for 3/4 heims. I'd use 3/4 x 3/4 heim with a 3/4 to 5/8 bolt misalignment spacer. You'll get more misalignment out of them.

Drill out to a 3/4" on a D30? OUch!

Flowers

 

[Flowers]

If your using heims for Daily driver, your taking a couple steps backwards

Please explain!

 

[gearwhine]

Drill out to a 3/4" on a D30? OUch!

Flowers

That's what I was wondering... 3/4" would probabaly take too much meat out of the knuckle, correct? So 5/8" woudl be teh better choice, plus they have about 12k more radial load strength than the 3/4".

 

[Flowers]

Gearwhine,

You speak the truth.

Flowers

 

[Bronco]

In theory rolled threads are stronger (external thread must also be stronger to get the benefit), but there is no reason to let that stop you. All you have to do is get a thread forming tap rather than a cutting tap. They are widely available and not really much more expensive. http://www.mcmaster.com/ part number 2534A18 for example. MHO is that the welded bung just adds one more failure mode, one more possible weak link, plus as was previously said you don’t get the thread depth (a bigger factor for thread strength than cut vers rolled).

 

[vintagespeed]

Drill out to a 3/4" on a D30? OUch!

Flowers

Knucklehead, I said 3/4 x 3/4 heim with a 3/4 x 5/8 bolt misalignment spacer. Thus you drill the steering arm to 5/8. Drilling any steering arm other than a Rockwell to 3/4 would be silly......jeez.

 

[vintagespeed]

Jeff didn't say anything about the average hack welding in his own bungs. What he said was "Cut threads are weaker than the rolled threads inside a bung. And it's not that difficult to get a good weld in DOM tubing." The "average hack" could take it to their local weld shop or over to their bud's house and have a bung welded in at minimal cost.

HTH,

Flowers

What I was saying is that it IS NOT easy to weld heavy wall DOM correctly. I've been welding for 7 years and it's taken alot of time to learn how to sink a bead in correctly on heavy wall tubing. So yes, the 'average hack' should take it to someone that knows what they're doing. I try not to recommend people doing things that will kill themselves & their families if/when they do it wrong. Therefore, like I said, it's easier for 'Joe Mechanic' to tap some DOM for heims than to weld bungs or take it somewhere to have them welded.......sheesh tough crowd.

 

[ChEwBaCcA]

Chi X Jeff and I live in the rust belt and run the same set up , I've had no problem w/ the salt a crud.

Chewy

 

[ChiXJeff]

What I was saying is that it IS NOT easy to weld heavy wall DOM correctly. I've been welding for 7 years and it's taken alot of time to learn how to sink a bead in correctly on heavy wall tubing. So yes, the 'average hack' should take it to someone that knows what they're doing. I try not to recommend people doing things that will kill themselves & their families if/when they do it wrong. Therefore, like I said, it's easier for 'Joe Mechanic' to tap some DOM for heims than to weld bungs or take it somewhere to have them welded.......sheesh tough crowd.

That's nice, I picked up a stick welder for the first time 25 years ago. Okay, so it's farm use, but don't toss something like a 7 year number out at me, I am NOT impressed. I'm finding that time in grade (regardless of skill) doesn't necessarily indicate competence.

You're probably right about penetration, though. I generally have the opposite problem, I tend to blast holes in stuff.

ChiXjeff

 

[vintagespeed]

......I picked up a stick welder for the first time 25 years ago..................I'm finding that time in grade (regardless of skill) doesn't necessarily indicate competence........................."

Um, isn't that what I was saying? I've seen plenty of old guys with old welders that lay nasty old booger welds, it doesn't matter how long ago you picked it up but what you're doing with it.