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Don't mind me, just giving Karl crap. Measure from tip to tip of the C's on the old axle. Place new c's on new axle and measure. It should be about an inch wider - either grind the c's down until they're both half an inch shorter on their insides or make an inch wide spacer for between the radius arms. The lower coil buckets will need to be redrilled after this is one. Also, make sure you MEASURE, don't go off my inch guess.
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what about makes sure the axle was centered? and i was going to put the radius arms on the axle, with the bushing in all. hook up my coils to bottom buckets, put it under the truck, hook the coils to the upper buckets, adjust with a hammer until i have no coil bowage? but then im not sure if i have the axle sitting dead even?
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Yeah but it all worked out. I recentely found some fab shop selling those spacers for the radius arms. If I remember right, they were even drilled and tapped so you don't need to re-drill the lower coil bucket. Knowing Paul is a cheap ****, I just made em out of plate steel.
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Measure knuckle inner "c" to knuckle inner "c", divide that in half to find your center (hint it won't line up with the pumpkin!). Do the same for your D44. After you find center of each, measure from center of the D4 to center of the radius arm c's and there is your measurement. Do each side and they should be the same.
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Post Fiend
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The ones you can buy are, but we cut about 1/2" off Pauls, so his were like 1/4". Paul, go take a pic of them, from what I remember, they were barely noticible after it was all done.
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Yeah, it wasn't supposed to happen that way, but a faulty tape and a dead eye reading the tape caused the issue. Needed to cut a little more than 1/8" off each c to have been right, but they were welded solid to the tube and weren't coming off. Long story short, I forgot to add in for a little extra when we welded them on.
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oo ok sounds good. man i dont know which route to take i dont feel like grindin a half inch off of each side and i dont feel like dicking with makin a spacer? do you have any clue where to purchase them bad boys at?
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Just a quick search, James Duff sells some:
New Products for Ford Bronco, Bronco II, Ranger and Explorer accessories, parts trucks, 4x4, SUVs, Fords
But those weren't the ones I originally found, they work though. just re-drill the coil bucket.
New Products for Ford Bronco, Bronco II, Ranger and Explorer accessories, parts trucks, 4x4, SUVs, Fords
But those weren't the ones I originally found, they work though. just re-drill the coil bucket.