I have an 89 Wrangler, and I am going to do a fullwidth 2000 dodge 60 up front. I plan to do a spring over, and can see my drivers side spring perch is going to be a problem. What can be done here? They way it looks right now, the u bolt will run in the path of the diff cover, and will require alot of notching to work right. Anybody have any good ideas, or run across this problem before?
Wrangler+fullwidth 60 up front question
- Thread starter TELFORD
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Tacoma
Et incurventur ante non
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- far enough away
outboard the hangers. Someone makes a kit for that.... Poison Spyder? Bluetorch??
RockMonkey
Suddenly Enthusiastic
Yup, what he said. Either that or narrow the axle.
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- farmington
If ya don't want to fab it yourself buy the blue torch kit it is nice.
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- Bountiful, land of rocks
TELFORD said:
I believe you can do that with a '77-79 F*rd kingpin axle in a YJ. Everything else will take a little work, from what I understand. I've not worked with the 'Ram' D60 axle you have so I'm of little to no help. FWIW, I had to outboard my springs for my Chev D60 (slightly).
wildkid
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Hey, I was thinking last night as I was driving home....
If you keep the spring width you have now (33 1/2" +/- out to out) that lands the driver side on the bump-stop pad - right? So, drill & tap studs into the pad, closest to the pumpkin and then use a u-bolt on the other side where it will fit. I think it would work. There looked like enough pad there to do that....
Anyone try this?
If you keep the spring width you have now (33 1/2" +/- out to out) that lands the driver side on the bump-stop pad - right? So, drill & tap studs into the pad, closest to the pumpkin and then use a u-bolt on the other side where it will fit. I think it would work. There looked like enough pad there to do that....
Anyone try this?
wildkid
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Degree shims, same as in the rear.TELFORD said:
wildkid said:
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on the front I wouldn't worry about it, on the rear make sure to weld the perches on at the correct angle. When you start changing pinion angle on the front you also in turn start to mess with your caster angle. So short of cutting and turning the knuckles, where the perch is already at is usually the best place to have it.
wildkid
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Supergper said:
Good point
Except the pads on this axle were for the bump stops, not for spring perches. So we are a little more at the mercy of Dodge
wildkid
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Have you started yet?
wildkid
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TELFORD said:
Oh yeah, I forget....I'll keep the weekend prior to EJS free
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- Grantsville, Utah
I think you should retain the Dodge coil and link suspension. That's what I would do.