420willys
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- Location
- holland mass yes its the east coast
well after digging them out of the snow last week and getting them torn down i decided to narrow them. why you ask, well the east coast trails that i run are tight. most fullsized alxe's push there way thru most of them. the other reasion is i converted to MAD-MAC's 14 bolt conversion http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=732246 and when i have the SRW hubs on it will be 80 3/4" WMS.
i plan on runing uncut H-1's but dropping 7.5'' off the long side tube will put me right were my jeep is now, as far as overall width.
so along with the tech. i cut the long side tube off, i messured 7" off the center of the last two bolts and cut the housing. then i cut the 7.5''s off the other end. then i ground a beval on the drop side tube and set the backup strips on.
thats were i ran into a small mess. when they built the rockwells ( well mine at least ) they take two side's like a clam shell and welded them together. well the problem is the weld sucks the side of the tube's togehter and make's a wave on them. to the naked eye you really cant see it, but its there.
so what does that all mean, it means i cant just take some back up srtips and hope that could aling the two halve's together.
so now i need to make a line up bar and build the two with a JIG ( more on that later ).
so heres were im at now, more to follow.
jason.
i plan on runing uncut H-1's but dropping 7.5'' off the long side tube will put me right were my jeep is now, as far as overall width.
so along with the tech. i cut the long side tube off, i messured 7" off the center of the last two bolts and cut the housing. then i cut the 7.5''s off the other end. then i ground a beval on the drop side tube and set the backup strips on.
thats were i ran into a small mess. when they built the rockwells ( well mine at least ) they take two side's like a clam shell and welded them together. well the problem is the weld sucks the side of the tube's togehter and make's a wave on them. to the naked eye you really cant see it, but its there.
so what does that all mean, it means i cant just take some back up srtips and hope that could aling the two halve's together.
so now i need to make a line up bar and build the two with a JIG ( more on that later ).
so heres were im at now, more to follow.
jason.
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