Crossover steering 80's
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Crossover steering 80's
Has anyone tryed to use the crossover style steering off of the 80's style trucks. I have a 79 CC 4x4 and I was comparing it to an 84 F250 4x4 with this style steering and it looks like it will work. Any Ideas????
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i built my own on 73 hiboy,problem i ran into was that springs will give side to side.
causing bad axle shake,your gonna have to put trac arm bar on axle.
don`t put two piece of of f250, go with f350 late 80`s-90`s.keep with straight axle parts
have been doing my home work on this.going to do same on my 79 f350
causing bad axle shake,your gonna have to put trac arm bar on axle.
don`t put two piece of of f250, go with f350 late 80`s-90`s.keep with straight axle parts
have been doing my home work on this.going to do same on my 79 f350
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If you have side to side flex with your leaf springs when steering check all your bushings. There's no reason for this unless you've got banana springs (which to many oft does not). I run no trac bar and have no issues, as do several other members here on FTE.
If I remember right it's thr 87 and newer F350's that used the solid front axle (D60). You don't want the steering junk off the TTB front end used on the 80's F250's. Do you have a D60 by any chance or is it a D44?
If I remember right it's thr 87 and newer F350's that used the solid front axle (D60). You don't want the steering junk off the TTB front end used on the 80's F250's. Do you have a D60 by any chance or is it a D44?
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i have 7 leave packs and still had problem even with poly bushings
running 38 swampers and balanced
ivanrivic: your right about late 80`s and ttb links
tryed new f250(2003-05) links are put in diferent they hit front cover
running 38 swampers and balanced
ivanrivic: your right about late 80`s and ttb links
tryed new f250(2003-05) links are put in diferent they hit front cover
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I am not having any problems with the steering, its an old truck with 35's it likes to wonder a bit. I would like to go with the crossover steering but the budget is limited. I thought maybe it would be cheaper to try to make a new style steering work on mine. This is why I was asking.
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