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[Gumby]

I opted for TREs on my T-100 for all the excellent reasons Billavista talked about on his steering pages.

I am thinking about switching the 40 to TREs as well. Perhaps just better quality heims would suffice.

 

[Mace]

Butch, see pirate for my thread on Buzz kill..


Gumby, go TRE. GM TRE's smallest dimension is 5/8" so reaming some arms from a 5/8" Rod end to a standard TRE taper is cake..

 

[hammerhead]

Where does one get a reamer to do that? I live in a small town and every time I ask at local shops they look at me as if I had bugs crawling out of my ears. I ask the local machinist and he acts as though I just asked for his first born.

 

[Gumby]

I thought about making my own hi-steer arms for the D44 on the T-100, but after pricing the reamers, I just bought some.

I have a whole ton of valve cutting stones left over from when we use to cut a lot of heads. I wonder if I could cut one of those stones to the right taper for the TREs and carefully and slowly grind a taper?

 

[Mace]

One choice

http://www.completeoffroad.com/products/i-84.html

And another

http://www.goracin.com/INDEX/Tapered_Reamer_for_Ball_Joint_Tie_Rod_CONVERSION.html


As for reaming with a stone. I would think that it would be very hard to be as consistant as a reamer. But it might work..

 

[Gumby]

The $119 price was about what I was finding. The $69.00 sounds like a deal. As long as it lasts through a few holes.