I'm going with "Complete Moron" for a billion!

 

got a new welder today. no progress been working everyday. Got a one year old miller millermatic 212. its pretty nice. Im pumped

 

Well no progress lately really been working alot. Here is a the design of the link setup for up front. kinda like the ballistic, but i will use my stock buckets because my coils arnt flat. those holes will be drilled out 9/16 bolts and I will angle in the pieces a tick to try to get more turnin clearnce. I will use that bushing, i think he said it is a GM bushing of somesort. It will be pressed into my big piece of DOM i got. If you werent sure if this guy is up to par or not, thats his chase truck he is building, for some big race in November. o and also i ordered my rims so i should finally kinda get to see how this thing sits. im excited.

 

I like the bracket design but they really need to be two so the links will be in double shear. It would be a terrible mistake for there to be only one in single shear.

A good poly bushing in a piece of DOM would work great for the axle end. Id still use a heim or joint for the frame end.


New welder? Thats the same one Ive got. I really like it.


The picture of the jeep makes me feel like Im drunk again...

 

Seriously, where else on the web could you find this kind of entertainment? Really?

I say keep at it and keep posting. I'm not really interested per say, but this is a 16 page trainwreck I couldn't stop reading until I was finished with it.

But you got good ideas and more ambition than I do, I will say that!!

 

ya hiem still going on the frame end, and what do you mean by make it two pieced? i will make four of these plates. two per joint. and i was thinkin about it today and i need to redo it alittle because i dont want my lower buckets to hang out of the front of these brackets. to keep my axle centered in the wheel well. so i will take alittle bit off the bottom side and add it to the top make it more like the ballistic one is but make it double jointed like this design. Sorry about my trainwreck bud but i dont know what i got myself into but im sure as hell know im going to finish it right. kris where and the heck have you been. ya im tickled to death about the welder gave 1000 dollhairs for it and got 3 spools of .045 but its rusty so it hit the dumpster, but came with the cylinder and its only a year old and ran two spools through it.

 

Ive been pretty busy at work and on vacation. I havent forgotten about your emails...just being lazy at the moment.


4 brackets is exactly what Im talking about. I didnt want you to only make 2 - one for each side.

 

ya negative on that. might as well use paper and glue ooo and i got my wheels today holy f they are so huge. 16.5x14 black with i 3 or 3.5 backspacing i forget. so cool

 

ok well i have gotten some stuff done, just been workin alot. got my link mounts made today. tomorrow i hope to get them set in stone. but i had a few questions. they are all stupid but they have me stumped. What is the stock pinion angle of a sterling 10.25, mine sits awful steep and im thinkin that someone may of done a crappy job putting new perches on. My rear axle does not look like it is sittin centered. Also my 79 half ton frame, all the narrowing that the frame does, it is symmetrical correct? Just because I want to make sure my front axle is sitting centered. Because as of right now my front axle is sitting dead on I think, I mean I just measured the width of the frame cut it in half and tacked a piece of rebar on there and marked center and dropped the plum bob, and the back wheels and tires aren't lining up at all with the front hub assembly. Also, my rear axle pinion isn't eye ball straight with the trans case pinion. idk here are some pictures i know you wont be able to tell much at all but just thought I would try to get you a visual. Any ideas? thanks.

 

i got stuff to do, so i'm logging off, but just so you know, the rear axle isn't as wide as the front axle. maybe that has something to do with your visual problems. and yes, the frame is symmetrically narrowed. just measure the width and cut it in half to find a centerline, but don't forget to take into consideration that your home made mounts may not be 100% equal, so take good measurements to be sure you square everything up.

 

they were cut out without a burnout table, and all bolted up with the bushing in them before any welding took place, so they should be very very close.
also i know sorry for the dumb question but is that how ford designs these is for the rear to be skinner than the front. I remember ed talkin about axle widths and how they track and i was just curouis. thanks

 

looks very good Dillin. I like the coil bucket/link mount.


Yeah the rear axle is generally narrower than the front for tracking purposes but Ive never really understood how this works.

 

kris, it's all about arcs of travel and some other math equation chit that i don't completely grasp either. ed explained it all a few pages back in this thread, but it might as well be in greek.

 

ok well im having difficulty getting the coil buckets mounted. i tacked in place the link buckets, but i think im gonna have that guy that is helpin me come over and see if he can help me. i just want it be perfect and I can't keep everything sqaure and right. I would really like to get this suspension finished up within a couple of weeks so the rest of the summer i can be puttin the truck back together. im ready to get it going.

 

so dillin is getting a new truck today. he finally got me a pic so i could see it. not my style, but he likes it :flipoff: