Ferg, are you going with 4.5 BS wheels all around, or just the rear?
Complete 80 series rear under FJ60 (SOA/leafs)
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Ferg,
Do you think you have enough room now to outboard your shocks? I know they'd work a lot better if they were mounted vertically and outboarded.
Also, why couldn't you just use the stock fj60 ebrake and just extend the ends 2.5" each to reach?
Do you think you have enough room now to outboard your shocks? I know they'd work a lot better if they were mounted vertically and outboarded.
Also, why couldn't you just use the stock fj60 ebrake and just extend the ends 2.5" each to reach?
HZJ60 Guy
Tank Buster
Looks like maybe the pinion offset isnt quite right.
What say you Mr.?
TB
What say you Mr.?
TB
theferg
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Overlord said:
Yup. 4.5 bs all around. I am widening the front axle with the sky's axle widening kit. Front will end up a around an 1" or so less in width I believe. But that's not that much so I'm not worried about it.
muddogbob said:
Probablyl enough room to outboard my shocks, but i'm not touchin those suckers. Atleast not for a long while. And ya I probalby could have just extended the FJ60 park brake cable, but why bother when an 80 series one works perfectly?
-Ferg-
I set most of this up in fact I probably did most of the work mostly because of Ferg's broken collar bone unforunately. The shock mount was done by a local shop but they did a really neat job of tucking the mout way up and back versus the stock cross member/shock mount. So even though the shock is mounted to the top of the housing (probably not the way I would have done it) there is actually quite a bit of travel. I believe they are 10" travel shocks but the way they are mount will allow for a lot of flex and travel. I think we could have mounted the shocks more vertically but would have had to redo or add additional mounts to the upper mount. I moved the lower shock mounts as inboard as possible but because of the location of the diff and the e locker motor that was the most inwards (aka vertical) I was able to get them. However, the way Ferg did the SOA was very well and he has very good stiff springs. He used the MAF add a leaf but the only thing is his truck probably sits a little taller than most SOA's at about 8" lift but it looks and rides great and is an awesome machine! The pinion angle was set so it was pointing just below the t case. We set this by placing all the weight on the rear axle which was on jack stands with the mopar perches in place but not welded. Then we used a floor jack until we had a good pinion angle. I have done this now on a few different 60's (I don't run a shop but have done it/helped a couple times now) including on my own old 60 and I have not gotten any virbration. I tried this technique after seeing Jon Bundrant's (all pro off road) technique in the links from Ih8mud before the offical spring over article. We measured and measured and I believe we have the axle on completely centered. One problem with the Mopar perches is the hole size is large - larger than most OEM spring pins so there is some room for movement before you get the u bolts tightened. So, the vehicle just barely tracks slightly to the left if you let off the wheel. However, as Ferg is redoing his front axle with the Sky Manufacturing spacers but more importantly getting correct length drag links and tie rod from Marlin, he will need an alignment up front anyway. However, I do not want to compensate for a rear axle error so when we wire up his rear e lockers we are going to replace his old u bolts and make some adjustments so it tracks dead on. These are at at faster highway speeds when the pull becomes noticable and even then it is very mild so I think it is only a couple mm off at most...
