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Maverick26 · Mar 27, 2014

Little more done tonight. Didn't have much time and it seemed like the truck was fighting me on everything so I didn't get much done.

Mark m. · Mar 28, 2014

CHOP SHOP said:
Oooh, old school crossover, I like it!

You have spent money on everything else. Why get cheap on the most important part of the rig IMO. Home made steering for a street rig. Why Hysteer is cheap.
Its shaping up to be a sweet rig.:awesomework:

Maverick26 · Mar 28, 2014

Mark m. said:
You have spent money on everything else. Why get cheap on the most important part of the rig IMO. Home made steering for a street rig. Why Hysteer is cheap.
Its shaping up to be a sweet rig.:awesomework:

Cause hysteer drives like ****, it changes all the angles of the steering geometry and I dont want to lift the truck 10 feet just the clear steering. Stop busting my balls Mark, Im busy ****in this thing up as fast as I can! :redneck: This truck will probably drive better than my dodge.

skinny_pedal · Mar 28, 2014

Your going to kill a bus full of pregnant nuns with that steering :flipoff:

Mark m. · Mar 28, 2014

Hy steer drives like ****? How much lift do you have? You only need 3" for it.

CHOP SHOP · Mar 28, 2014

Mark m. said:
Hy steer drives like ****? How much lift do you have? You only need 3" for it.

He is refering to the ****ed up Ackerman angle that hysteer arms have to clear the rim lip when put on top of a knuckle.

The hysteer arms dont put the tires in a correct circle when turned.

Measure the length of a hysteer tierod (not draglink) and then compare it to the stock tierod mounted down low, the stock one will be longer as the arms are further out than a hysteer.

I think its 4xlabs that makes a correct kit.

Nothing wrong with a welded arm if ya know how to weld properly. :beer:

Mark m. · Mar 28, 2014

Well I put about 50,000 miles of road driving with my Hysteer and it was much better that the stock ****. So what ever I guess if your going to be cheap with something the steering seems to be a good place for it.

CHOP SHOP · Mar 29, 2014

Mark m. said:
Well I put about 50,000 miles of road driving with my Hysteer and it was much better that the stock ****. So what ever I guess if your going to be cheap with something the steering seems to be a good place for it.

Yes a hysteer drives MUCH better than a stock rig with push/pull and bump steer no doubt.

But a crossover with proper arms is EVEN better!

Maverick26 · Mar 29, 2014

http://www.aqualu.com/specials.html

Scroll down to the bottom of the page on the Aqualu site. This is what I built myself. I know itâ€™s been used for years before Hysteer came about. I know it will work just fine. The weld process was overkill but was performed as fallows- prepped all welding surface with sandblaster and bevel ground all weld channels. Preheated base metal to 500*F and welded a complete hot GTAW root pass with ER70S-2 filler set at 160a. Once root was complete, followed up with GMAW cover pass with .035 ER70S-2 set at 8.5 on the autoset with no undercut. Bracing in web was done the same way. Bracing is 2 triangle plates 1/4" thick with a boxed in end of 1/8" flat bar radius bent to 8" for added structure. If any of you arm chair engineers think you can destructive test this steering arm I will gladly lend it out for testing. :fawkdancesmiley: Just having fun building this thing guys... its all good.

Maverick26 · Mar 30, 2014

Got some more stuff done on the truck today. Steering is done less mounting the stabilizer. Got both drive lines in with new U joints. Still waiting on the powder coater for the wheels and a few other parts. It's getting close!

Maverick26 · Mar 30, 2014

Maverick26 · Mar 30, 2014

Got my console going again too.

Maverick26 · Apr 3, 2014

Got the skid plate done from Dave and got my wheels back from powder coater last night! I am busy getting **** ready for the Desert 100 so I wont get anything done on this tell next week.

Maverick26 · Apr 8, 2014

Got the tires mounted last night, I used airsoft BBs to balance them so we will see how that works. The beadlocks with anticone rings worked great from Jester Fab! I sure love the look of those 34x9.5 tires! Just doing the typical nut and bolt work now finishing up loose ends. It wont be long now, I hope to be driving it this weekend! :cheer:

JesterFab · Apr 8, 2014

Looks good. :awesomework:
Take some pics of the skid when you are done. I want to see how it turned out. Thanks

1 grumpy · Apr 9, 2014

Looking good like the 34x9.5 swamper's also

Maverick26 · Apr 10, 2014

Thanks guys! Got her back on tires last night but have a few kinks I need to work out still. Trying to figure out what I want to do with the shock situation. The stock ones are just too short. I might be able to make the rears work if I mount them on top of the axle tube and install my rear flip kit. But the fronts suck, I guess ill use the ford towers and buy new shocks. I got one tire that leaks from 20psi to 0psi in about 45 mins, Ill play with the beadlock to try and get it to seal up a bit better. I bent up some rock slider tubes last night and will be building those up soon. I am taking the seat down to get rebuilt with new foam and recovered with heated seats installed. I hope to have the truck able to drive up on the trailer by the end of the weekend to take to the exhaust shop.

Got the custom JesterFab skid plate welded up last night, ill be fitting it up in the truck tonight! Thanks Dave!!