Post by Creepy on Dec 2, 2005 0:39:58 GMT -4
I BRAKE FOR DEATHWOBBLE
almost had to get a bumpersticker made up. ;D
i had a homemade tracbar with a polyflex joint at the top end, uca bushing at the bottom end. the upper joint was toast. and i gave montgomery a steering box bolt to get out of the woods after the curse a few weeks ago, then parked the zj for a week and totally forgot about it. went wheelin and busted my box. haha, it's Dave's fault!!! ;D
nah, just good incentive to get rid of the intermittent wobble i've had for months. the longarms really need a good tracbar. it is one of only 3 frame attachment points on my radius arm style set-up, i needed more beef.
i figured i could put the tracbar over axle, and ditch the steering stabilizer if i got the geometry right. eventually, i will have a flipped tie rod set-up, and the draglink will be perfectly parallel once that is done. this new set-up, although not exactly parallel, is performing very well. it has a tiny tiny bit of bumpsteer on rolling whoop kind of bumps at speed, and ZERO deathwobble, even with no shock. no bumpsteer on quick bumps like expansion joints on highway overpasses. that used to be the worst!! so i'm pretty happy with it.
The steering box is off a 80-up Wagoneer, it has a 4th mounting hole and a bigger bore than my stock box. It steers like it has 235's on. quite a bit more assist, luv it.
J20 boxes have an even larger bore for more assist.
my stock lines and pitman bolted right up. 79 down wag boxes use a flared fitting on the hoses, and will not bolt up. the 80-ups have o-rings. the steering intermediate shaft also slips right on.
this all applies to xj/zj/mj/yj/tj/cj, note the year the fitting changed if you are working on a cj.
so really the only thing was to make a 4th hole in my frame for the box, other than that is bolts up. pretty simple, huh?
i cleaned off the stock brackets on the d30, and removed the upper trac bar bracket. fab'ed up new ones.
The first job on my new little mill was to cut brackets for the hiems. fun, tidy and clean looking. (well, when i paint it...) Used Competion Engineering 3/4 x 3/4 hiems for the tracbar. the bar itself is 1.25" sch.80. big fat Grd.8 bolts thru with DOM tube spacers milled flat.
i lathed down and welded coupler nuts into the pipe to recieve the hiems. this is a d30, i feel pretty confident using pipe, not tube. she's only little. i used the same mat'l on my rear upper arms and they have proven more than adequate for 33's.
jeez, the pic makes the angle look way less than //. it's better than that, the ZJ is parked on dirt, it's leaning a bit!!
Jan
almost had to get a bumpersticker made up. ;D
i had a homemade tracbar with a polyflex joint at the top end, uca bushing at the bottom end. the upper joint was toast. and i gave montgomery a steering box bolt to get out of the woods after the curse a few weeks ago, then parked the zj for a week and totally forgot about it. went wheelin and busted my box. haha, it's Dave's fault!!! ;D
nah, just good incentive to get rid of the intermittent wobble i've had for months. the longarms really need a good tracbar. it is one of only 3 frame attachment points on my radius arm style set-up, i needed more beef.
i figured i could put the tracbar over axle, and ditch the steering stabilizer if i got the geometry right. eventually, i will have a flipped tie rod set-up, and the draglink will be perfectly parallel once that is done. this new set-up, although not exactly parallel, is performing very well. it has a tiny tiny bit of bumpsteer on rolling whoop kind of bumps at speed, and ZERO deathwobble, even with no shock. no bumpsteer on quick bumps like expansion joints on highway overpasses. that used to be the worst!! so i'm pretty happy with it.
The steering box is off a 80-up Wagoneer, it has a 4th mounting hole and a bigger bore than my stock box. It steers like it has 235's on. quite a bit more assist, luv it.
J20 boxes have an even larger bore for more assist.
my stock lines and pitman bolted right up. 79 down wag boxes use a flared fitting on the hoses, and will not bolt up. the 80-ups have o-rings. the steering intermediate shaft also slips right on.
this all applies to xj/zj/mj/yj/tj/cj, note the year the fitting changed if you are working on a cj.
so really the only thing was to make a 4th hole in my frame for the box, other than that is bolts up. pretty simple, huh?
i cleaned off the stock brackets on the d30, and removed the upper trac bar bracket. fab'ed up new ones.
The first job on my new little mill was to cut brackets for the hiems. fun, tidy and clean looking. (well, when i paint it...) Used Competion Engineering 3/4 x 3/4 hiems for the tracbar. the bar itself is 1.25" sch.80. big fat Grd.8 bolts thru with DOM tube spacers milled flat.
i lathed down and welded coupler nuts into the pipe to recieve the hiems. this is a d30, i feel pretty confident using pipe, not tube. she's only little. i used the same mat'l on my rear upper arms and they have proven more than adequate for 33's.
jeez, the pic makes the angle look way less than //. it's better than that, the ZJ is parked on dirt, it's leaning a bit!!
Jan
