14 bolt truss

[wontwork]

Haha. Tru fax

Your dad likes nothin more than to have a nice breezy day under the tent with old yellar. 8)

 

[74_Chevota]

Build your own is my vote. Although you its hard to compete with pricing on some of the ones out now. Here is one i did for a buddys 10.25 rear.

 

[midsouthfab]

Build your own is my vote. Although you its hard to compete with pricing on some of the ones out now. Here is one i did for a buddys 10.25 rear.

I basically did the same thing on a 14 bolt but with additional bars in the rear and have bent it twice in two trips. That one is nice, but will need way more support.

 

[blacksheep10]

that design is just fine if you have a vertical support from teh cover to the bottom of the tube to keep it from trying to get closer to the cast, and then a spine on it to keep it from wanting to let the pinion get up close and personal with your upper links. the btf/Kore style rely on teh front plate to stand a push or compression force. that is why the plate is so thick. when you are in a forward gear, the pinion wants to go up/truss forward. bracing off the cover is where its at torsional (from teh side) strength. with enough plate thickness, going forward will work. hell, with enough material thickness you don't need a stiffener rib for a flat plate over the rear like BTF

 

[74_Chevota]

I basically did the same thing on a 14 bolt but with additional bars in the rear and have bent it twice in two trips. That one is nice, but will need way more support.

I ended up tieing it into the cast housing, but didnt want to rely totally on that. I believe it should hold up just fine but need the owner to get it running first.

 

[blacksheep10]

if you went to the cast, you took the vertical load off, now just put a spine (veritcal plate) off the cover up to the back of the brace and a 1/2" bolt in it to a tab on the back of the truss. take all the torsional out of it. be perfect. I wouldn't go out without it.

 

[InDaShop]

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[P]

You know what is MOST hilarious about this thread....

Numbnuts is going to set it up the way the chassis is laid out, he dont even need a "truss" laughing1


Im getting him handled on some "towers" for the straight uppers and all the other tabs he needs to get this thing sitting proper like.

Kelly... what ends did he end up going with upper and lower size wise do you know ?? ( I believe he did purchase form you right... )

 

[lay]

hell i was going by the pic of the chassis when they posted it up for sale with tons under it and it was double trianglelated and the upper tabs went to a truss but you figured it all out

 

[P]

Stop lookin at pictures of other people's **** and spend 3 min's looking at YOUR chassis. Your killin me over here Lay laughing1

Everything your guessing / assuming and over thinking is already done, all you have to do is look at YOUR chassis and build off of what is already there. The tabs are on your chassis, hell you have half the links for it already. Go look at it , all the answer's are right there kicking you in the balls.

**** , now I gotta go find the pics I took of your chassis to see if I can figure it out for your silly ass....


Things I know without even looking at it :

Jimmys4x4 Chassis that has tabs already welded to the chassis

They typically do straight uppers out back and very heavily triangulated lowers ( ALA Caddishacks rig since its almost an identical chassis )

You have some if not most the links already that you bought with the chassis

You have 3/4x3/4 heims for the uppers and 3/4 x 7/8 for your lowers..

You match the tabs and set seperation at the axle and your suspension will fall into place since its already "pre-engineered" from the original build/purchase of your chassis.

This thing should be a roller next week if it is designed suspension wise the way all the other Jimmy's chassis are and I get your tabs/towers in ASAP. ( which you have paid for already so that wont be a problem , thank you for dropping off the monies to the wife last night.. )


Stop trying to make this a hard process man, take a deep breath grasp the fact that this is about as straight forward a build as you can get compared to what you were trying to do with the Rockwells and lets get this bish on the trails SON

 

[P]

Told you you didnt need a truss....

 

[P]

Obviously the uppers arent "straight" but they arent angled directly at the top of the rearend either, they triangulate a little bit and you hit the "towers" that weld to the tops of the axle tubes.

Im going to order the parts you need today when they come in, I will come over and lay your suspension out for you so everything is happy. Dont worry about it, you'll be roller in a few hours

( assuming you have link material, threaded inserts / or said link material tapped out already... )

 

[TwinStick]

I've got a BTF on my 14b. For the money, you can't beat it. I think I paid $225 for the truss and the pinion guard was included. I made all the rest of my brackets out of 3" square tubing.