Homebrew homemade superrunner type steering setup

[RobinHood]

Does anyone have any links or pics of homemade setups? A while back l came across a link to one with a list of parts (l think) and a writeup, but now l cannot find it. Anyone have any thoughts, experience, links etc...

 

[CopyKat]

Here is one I have come across. Local guy built it.

 

[dusto2]

I had thought about this before, late at night i get bored at the parts store i work at, and look up stuff like this and others, and thought if i were to make this set up instead of the tie rod ends both being on the backside. Make it so you have one end go in the front and the other in the back, and have it go to the opposite side hole, so basically you are extending each one over by a couple inches which i am sure would help that much more with the bumpsteer. Does anybody understand what i just said or do i need to make drawings of this?

 

[4x4junkie]

Like this?

http://www.therangerstation.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7301


IMO, you get the geometry right on a normal "K-link" setup, and you'll be hard-pressed to tell the difference.

 

[dusto2]

you never disapoint junkie. that is what i was thinkin of only without heims, but i like that would just do it a little differently, like not welding to the tre for the pitman arm, and solid plates not 2 piece for the heims

 

[racinranger]

does that guy in the top pic that copykat put up have a k link minus the idler? Maybe im just blind or retarded but it looks like he took a pitman arm and welded on a chuck of box steel and then put a tab on it completly unsuported on one end?

im thinkin thats absolutly unsafe at best and most likely will end up failing at the pitman arm/extension joint if it even works good enough to get it out of the driveway.

 

[Wicked_Sludge]

look closer. the idler attaches to the motor cradle on the middle/passanger side, the joint at the k-link is directly behind the sway bar (its a heim joint).

looks ok to me...

 

[racinranger]

i blew it up and now i see......thank sweet 10lb sleeping baby jesus. That's actually prolly a very functional setup. damn tiny pictures and poor vision.

on the other hand whats the best way to blow up a pic like that and not get it all nasty and pixilated

 

[Wicked_Sludge]

you cant. its limited by the pictures resolution. anytime you increase the size of a picture beyond its resolution all your doing is making its pixles bigger. increase it too much and the pixles become noticeable.

 

[4x4junkie]

The thing's already 800x600, I can see it just fine

(you did click on it right??)

 

[bobbywalter]

I had thought about this before, late at night i get bored at the parts store i work at, and look up stuff like this and others, and thought if i were to make this set up instead of the tie rod ends both being on the backside. Make it so you have one end go in the front and the other in the back, and have it go to the opposite side hole, so basically you are extending each one over by a couple inches which i am sure would help that much more with the bumpsteer. Does anybody understand what i just said or do i need to make drawings of this?

i did that....i would rather have a normal ss build.

 

[racinranger]

i did click on it but im using a 10'' asus EEEPC 1000hd with a so so screen for its size and im sorta blind. a 10'' minipc doesnt lend well to helping a blinder guy like myself.

 

[CopyKat]

Here are a couple scary steering ones.

 

[F150hybred]

Don't know what kinda "clusterfuck" that set up is... but it sure looks NASTY!

 

[Wicked_Sludge]

no its ok. hes got two steering stabilizers and some kind of a "kustom koil kontainer" thing going on....