This is my next build, 86 B2. It's rough, but I'm gonna save it for my wife and kids to ride in.
Plans are to remove old lift and axles, remove body lift, install full width 44 and 8.8, 4.88 gears and lockers, simple leafs and coils with extended and heimed radius arms. Gonna stretch it to about 100" wheel base. Wanting to run a 37" or so tire. And going to build custom bumpers, sliders and maybe a simple interior cage.
U sure u dont wanna try ur hand at cutting, grinding, n welding...ya never know, its addicting. Besides, im sure Kyle ed love ta see ya in leathers and a welding lid...
You need to jam nut both sides of each arm to put the threads in tension. You'll yank them out eventually if you don't have them in tension. I'd get rid of the weak link and not deal with trying to keep jam nuts tight personally.
The one side has 2.125" of thread engagement, and is welded on the backside of the insert. Jam nut won't do me any good on that side. If it pulls out, I have bigger things to worry about.
Keep up the work. Maybe ill get mine back out one day and have some fun. Im gonna need a good trail beater rig with what im doing to my k5, no more trails for that.
Keep up the work. Maybe ill get mine back out one day and have some fun. Im gonna need a good trail beater rig with what im doing to my k5, no more trails for that.
While setting up the axle yesterday I set the driverside to negative 5* caster and noticed the passenger side didn't match. Look like it is twisted forward almost 10*
You can see it looking at how the tierod mounts line up
Debating on how to fix it. My first thought is wondering how it twisted, thinking at the pig, so I was thinking I should try and twist it back and then truss it. Second thought is to just truss it, build it, mount it up, then cut the welds at the c and twist that back and weld it back up.
Your looking off the tie rod mounting locations, did you actually check off the upper and lower ball joints? Maybe the kknuckles are slightly different but the actual location of the ball joints is the same...ie caster is actually the same in both sides.
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