nooch450
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Check out Google SketchUp its free and I designed my steering swingers in the program!



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im going to check that out...did you get your coilovers yet?
build looks good. Dont do the double swingers....leave those for equal length. You will gain nothing by going to double swingers with an unequal length setup.
What size tube are you planing to use for your shock mount cross brace? You start running out of room under there real quick. Watch for motor mount flex, it doesn't take a whole lot to crack the 4.0 intake manifold.
My swingers will not be mounted like a traditional dual swinger setup for equal length beams... my swingers will be positioned to follow the unequal length beams just like they would on an equal length beam set up... The way it does this is by being mounted the swinger directly ontop of the beam pivot... my left side swinger that serves my passenger tire will be mounted between my pitman arm and the other swinger to make up for the unequal length beams...
With the stock steering you will still have bumpsteer.
And a single swinger gets ride of most of it but not all.
Dual gets rid of the most possible... but nothing is perfect...
The only problem i see is what happens when you lose the drop brackets and get the beams cut and turned? If you build your swingers to the specs of the drop brackets, and after a while you get the beams turned, all of your swinger/steering geometry will be goofed up. I dunno maybe that would be easy to fix. I'm sure you've already thought of that, just trying to save you some headache![]()
I think as long as everything is lined up where it's supposed to be, your steering will be fine, unequal beams or not.
IMO, equal length beams would be counterproductive on a radius arm setup anyway (particularly on a 4WD setup where there's a significant difference in the fore/aft positioning of the driverside and passengerside beam pivots). Many people I don't think realize that a requirement for the camber/caster curves to be the same on both sides is to have the passengerside beam remain slightly shorter than the driver side (yes I know this does sound counterintuitive). How much shorter is a function of radius arm length vs. the fore/aft difference of the positions of the drivers & passengerside beam pivots.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/sfr4x4/ttbsymetry.jpg
The picture I edited and posted here is showing where i plan on mounting my swingers... the fat blue lines represent my swinger pivot points and the red circle is there my pitman arm is... I belive these pivots lines are where my swingers should be mounted... So directly above the beam pivots bolts but obiously in front of them also... If im wrong let me know!
http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/t433/nooch450/ttbsymetry.jpg