ok picture time. i ended up slacking out saturday even and ran up to the cottage lol
1st off here is my shortened crossover link. i know it doesnt look the greatest but this is all being done with a stick welder and getting burned in HOT so dont worry lol plus like i said before hammared inside of it is solid round stock you can kinda see where i did the roset welds
and here is my steering linkages at ride hight think im gonna have any problems with bump steer? lol
and the clearances between the crossover link and the oil pan i think it'll be fine but we'll see worst comes to worst ill actually have to put in bump stops
my pretty highsteer arms
and here they are in comparison to the stock ones (kinda hard to see but they go down to where my hand is)
now in order to get everything all nice and straight i had to move the steering box up ALOT more then i wanted to so much so i had to remove a body mount...
the body mount will be replaced with some angle iron welded to the bumper support. (bumper support is like 1/2" thick it should bestrong enough)
so once i had my box in place and everything done i decided to change out the pitman arm.
this is the old with the stupid male TRE built in.
and here is the new one. its the exact same length and drop as stock
now its hard to see but my crossover clears the pitman arm by an inch the two bars are exactly parallel but im concered with them hitting each other as i have my swing shackles up front. but i like that my drag link is almost flat to the ground ( i could easily get a flat pitman arm and not have a worry but i like that i figure im going to have zero bumpsteer)
so if it becomes a problem im going to do a shackle reversal so the axle swings to the way and away from the pitman arm.
while shortening the crossover link i realized im bad at simple math when im tired and hot so heres my solution
and once all that was done i threw on a few new stickers id like a trail gear one as well but the ones they sent are like huge on a samurai windshield lol