ROFL, I have jackstands, I just removed them so they didn't get in the way of my expert photography. Of course I would NEVER crawl up under a truck that wasn't safe, not ever. Who would do such a thing as that?

And them aint scissor jacks from a Honda Civic, those are really aluminum racing jacks disguised at scissor jacks

And the heim joints i'm just using to take measurements with. I plan on using TREs when I know what length to cut my tubing. But you are correct, that looks very much like something a Texan would do, especially one like me.

That pitman arm came off a '79 F150 4x4, the one in my gallary I got picked up with the crane. I can't remember much about what it looked like before I got happy with the torch, but I do remember some angle to the drag link.

I'm not sure where I got the 18 inches from, because that would stick the pitman arm way out in front of the truck. I was late and I was tired and I guess I guestimated wrong, you know everything is WAY bigger in Texas.


Thanks for the replys guys. Any more would be appreciated, but I just wanted to make sure that wasn't going to be an unsafe angle. It would be terrible to survive no jack stands, weenie scissor jacks, and all that just to die on the road when my truck won't steer right.

 

You'd be surprised. I drove by a neighbors house the other day who had his 70's 260 Z up in the air with the front wheels off supported by about 20 pieces of 1x4 on each side.

You using DOM for your links? What size?

 

I was planning on buying some DOM for the tie rods and drag link. Haven't really thought about the size yet, the DOM I used for my trac bar is 3/4 ID, I might just get more of that stuff. I guess it really depends on what size the male ends are on my tie rod ends