steering

[91 Big Red]

this is the steering arm I made its kinda crude but effective its temporary anyway bc i'm doing a straight axle

 

[Maverick]

It's clear you have no fab skills or sense of whats safe, so dont even bother with a SAS. Do everyone a favor and keep that thing PARKED

 

[krugford]

Well, as long as you don't go past the end of your own driveway, you'll be fine.

Seriously, why don't you let everybody know where you live so they can stay the hell away from that rolling deathtrap.

They make drop pitman arms for a reason, and even those have their own issues. Keep that thing off the road until you do it right.

 

[BlackBII]

No, Seriously.

wtf

Just as everyone else said, do it right. Do some research and do it so it's right, and not a deathtrap. When you nigga-rig stuff like this, it becomes hazrdous. Please don't attept an SAS any time soon.

If you want some suggestions for a "Right" Steering set up, ask.

If you own anything with boobs, please keep it out of your truck untill it's fixed.

 

[metalmacguyver]

If you own anything with boobs, please keep it out of your truck untill it's fixed.

x2. that also applies to your own genitalia.

 

[dirtraider]

wow you are a dumbass step away from the metal and welder

 

[Ranger44]

If I don't have anything nice to say.....don't say it at all.....

I have nothing nice to say.

 

[91 Big Red]

actually that was the only recommendation i could come up with after 5 months of trying to figure out what to do with my upside down y steering which would collapse and send the truck in to a death wobble every time you hit the pavement. those two bars need to be paralell to each other or it just doesn't work. and don't even say " why don't you get a drop pitman arm" because that is a drop pitman arm! its the biggest drop i could find. from what i've found no one makes a drop pitman arm for the 8 inch lift. so I am doing a sas this is temporary. and you say no weilding skills? puh this would never break. and it goes down the road perfectly.

 

[91 Big Red]

5.5 inch drop pitman arm, still needed 3 inches to level out the steering. what would tou guys do? because my z bar works(yea and they make z bars to for rangers they cost about 200 bucks i made the same damn thing)

 

[88mudder]

tie rod is bent , looks like its unsafe. Id change it right away...for your own safety.

 

[krugford]

Ever thought about a k-link set-up or a swing style steering? You chose to lift that thing 8 inches, what makes you think a suspension lift stops with the axles? Both options will take some thought and fabrication to make them behave well on and off road. There's always going to be steering problems when lift a truck that far. Why do you need that much lift anyway? How about dropping it to 6 inches? Is it the pic or are your axle pivots below the axle centerline?

You say it's temporary, but seriously, how long will it actually be before you rip it all apart anyways? If it's going to be soon, then stop driving it now. If you can't stop driving it now because you need it, then fix the steering before somebody gets hurt. It's only a matter of time.

 

[91 Big Red]

no the pivot point isn't off but i did notice one thing today while it was on the lift that is really affecting my steering, the drop bracket for the radius arms doesn't drop low enough and its giving it alot of negative camber i need to fab another drop bracket using the old one as a template so that its where it should be at about 2 degrees pos camber. and i have it this high just because i can, later on down the road i'm going to gut the entire truck push the fire wall back about and inch and put a 460 in it, and again you say why i say why not.

 

[91 Big Red]

and no the tie rod isn't bent it is made with a bend from front to back so it can connect to the back side of the other connecting rod you see an up and down bend because of the angle of the pic i was kneeling taking the pic at a downward angle.

 

[91 Big Red]

i was thinking about using steering out of an early ifs toyota with an idler arm but this works just fine, its safe trust me i tested the hell out of it before it was put on the road and every time i tested it i brought it back and checked for stress cracks by going over it with a propane torch, u just go over it with the torch and stress cracks show up don't over heat it bc it is semi hardened metal, thats y the gussets are on it bc the heat of the weilds took the temper out of the metal and if it hadn't been gussetted it would have bent the first turn i took. don't worry ppl i didn't just think of this and do it the next day, i have a friend who is a mechanical engineer and i gave him a drawing of what i was doing and he told me what metal to get and how thick and all that crap. it just looks crude bc i didn't grind it and try to make it kook pretty, i don't care about pretty i care about function and trust me this works very well.

 

[du510]

from what i've found no one makes a drop pitman arm for the 8 inch lift.

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