retubing an axle

[Vanimal]

 

[souske]

How did you get rock rash on the top of your tie rod?

 

[kastein]

All that work and a stock diff cover?

 

[Vanimal]

All that work and a stock diff cover?

like i said, i'll be upgrading it when i do my 500 mile gear oil change.

 

[Vanimal]

How did you get rock rash on the top of your tie rod?

i rotated it when i was straightening it

besides, you should know better than to have to ask that. a better question would be how i got rash on my drag link

 

[cracker]

After seeing it, I'd leave it alove and just make a new tie rod with offeset TREs like Moparmaniac said.

 

[Vanimal]

After seeing it, I'd leave it alove and just make a new tie rod with offeset TREs like Moparmaniac said.

i can raise my axle side track bar mount fairly easily to help with geometry a little, and i thought i remember hearing of a pitman arm with less drop (waggy or wj, i forgot).
not sure if that changes your suggestion at all in regards to OTK, just throwing that out there.

 

[rockclimber]

How did you get rock rash on the top of your tie rod?

it was a special day

 

[Vanimal]

it was a special day

only for your buddy who i suspect had to leave so quickly to change his underwear
his expression when he started tipping was priceless LOL

 

[rockclimber]

only for your buddy who i suspect had to leave so quickly to change his underwear
his expression when he started tipping was priceless LOL

I lol'd... I put him right on the line he wanted to be on, but with the SWB and the crappy tires, he had no chance.

 

[cracker]

i can raise my axle side track bar mount fairly easily to help with geometry a little, and i thought i remember hearing of a pitman arm with less drop (waggy or wj, i forgot).
not sure if that changes your suggestion at all in regards to OTK, just throwing that out there.

OTK on the drag link will screw up your akerman

 

[souske]

All that work and blown stock motor mounts?

FIFY!

 

[Vanimal]

OTK on the drag link will screw up your akerman

never heard of akermann until now, i'm doing some reading to try and understand it better.
this thing turns on a dime offroad, it almost feels like a front dig, just pulls the front end up and around anything. i love it in that respect. on road stability is semi crap, it's tolerable, but there is no return to center.
from the couple threads i found on pirate, it sounds like i have an inverted ackermann. and going OTK will make it worse than it is now, correct?
if i can raise the pitman side as much as i can raise the knuckle side when going otk, will it steer the same as it does now?

 

[MoparManiac]

I ran OTK on my wj setup and it was great.

 

[cracker]

never heard of akermann until now, i'm doing some reading to try and understand it better.
this thing turns on a dime offroad, it almost feels like a front dig, just pulls the front end up and around anything. i love it in that respect. on road stability is semi crap, it's tolerable, but there is no return to center.
from the couple threads i found on pirate, it sounds like i have an inverted ackermann. and going OTK will make it worse than it is now, correct?
if i can raise the pitman side as much as i can raise the knuckle side when going otk, will it steer the same as it does now?

I seem to recall an associate who ran it this way and struggled with it.

Do your research to be certain.

I have no personal experience with this set up

 

[MoparManiac]

There were issues running a wj RHD driver's side knuckle for true high steer, that messed with ackerman.

 

[Vanimal]

There were issues running a wj RHD driver's side knuckle for true high steer, that messed with ackerman.

everything i'm reading says it has to do with the tie rod length, which would ring true with what you just said since the upper arm on the wj knuckle is way inboard from the lower tie rod arms.

 

[Vanimal]

I lol'd... I put him right on the line he wanted to be on, but with the SWB and the crappy tires, he had no chance.

i give him credit for even tryng that line. i give his dad even more credit for getting out before it :laugh2:

 

[cal]

OTK on the drag link will screw up your akerman

you keep telling people that, and it keeps being incorrect.

OTK vs UTK has nothing to do with ackerman.

 

[rockclimber]

you keep telling people that, and it keeps being incorrect.

OTK vs UTK has nothing to do with ackerman.

I agree...