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Oh COME ON, let Darwin do his thing....we need to reduce the # of dumbasses in this world.....
Knuckle Cut & Turn (3 Viewers)
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Oh COME ON, let Darwin do his thing....we need to reduce the # of dumbasses in this world.....
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Pin_Head I will admit that I should have and certainly could have spent more time prepping the area for the best weld and procedure I could achieve in field conditions.
He is correct guys this is a critical weld and needs to be taken seriously. However, lets not turn this into a "how to make proper weld thread" that was never the intent of this thread nor did I assume that everyone would be running out with their 130A welders trying to weld the knuckles back on. Please use the proper machine and procedure to weld the knuckles back on.
Oh COME ON, let Darwin do his thing....we need to reduce the # of dumbasses in this world.....
True, but 80's are getting hard to find and we don't need to be destroying them because knuckles are falling off! ;p
I see this as a great option for the 37 and up crowd. Control arms flipped on top, cut and turn, high steer, and 40's with good road manors...who da ever thought. Saved for another thread
I see this as a great option for the 37 and up crowd. Control arms flipped on top, cut and turn, high steer, and 40's with good road manors...who da ever thought. Saved for another thread
Pretty much what I posted in another thread BUT...
control arm flips are for guys without the grey matter to design a proper radius arm for a given lift!
Pretty much what I posted in another thread BUT...
control arm flips are for guys without the grey matter to design a proper radius arm for a given lift!
Haha, yeah right. If I designed a radius arm, it would be for a flipped possition. But the factory arms work. So why bother?
Everything from the factory WORKS, so why bother making any changes?
maxamillion2345
Franken-80
Not with 40s!
Control arms that correct caster, address driveline angle, re-center axle in the wheel well, and afford any less rigidity to the fronts ability to articulate ARE "the more elegant solution"....but must be crafted out of unobtanium.
Amen brother.
maxamillion2345
Franken-80
They dont drive anywhere near as good. Tried them all. But happy to jump in other trucks running these set ups to compare.
I believe it ended up only being 3/16" or 4.7625 mm for the rest of the world.
I think i heard 5/16 on a inch was was needed on a 60 axle, but that was a few years back when i heard that. i maybe completely wrong but for some reason i do remember that.
cheers and love the write up, super easy to follow, great pics and a NO BS outcome
cheers
Bomar
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OP...nice way to think out of the normal box.
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I got to drive this truck a couple of weeks ago. Just on pavement but also up to speed, ie 60mph. It drove unbelievable! It felt like a brand new truck, the steering the handling, the brakes all felt incredible. I had driven the truck before although off-road on snow and it sure felt like a completely different truck to me two weeks ago. The steering and braking being the biggest improvements I noticed. Both being very responsive and very sweet.
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I got to drive this truck a couple of weeks ago. Just on pavement but also up to speed, ie 60mph. It drove unbelievable! It felt like a brand new truck, the steering the handling, the brakes all felt incredible. I had driven the truck before although off-road on snow and it sure felt like a completely different truck to me two weeks ago. The steering and braking being the biggest improvements I noticed. Both being very responsive and very sweet.
Thanks Bro!
Just an update, almost 3 months and a ton of miles including a week long trip to Colorado (1500+ miles) and not a single problem! Like ↑ said it drives amazing...
nukegoat
Should have bought a Jeep
Word. But they don't flex like a proper linked setup, either. Depends what you're doing with the rig, I suppose.
Waiting until I can do a cut and weld on mine.. -1 caster sucks
but those welds are pretty critical
my friend had his knuckle break of on the middle of Europes biggest Glacier..
luckily he wasn't going very fast and the snow dampened the blow, broke the axle tough but everything else was good, steering, break lines, everything except the axle broke inside, we had welding pins delivered to us from another group nearby , actually had to meet them in a hut 25-30miles away spend the night there and drive to the truck the day after early morning , weld it together, then he only had 3 wheel drive and we had to drive over the glacier to get down the other side, got gaught in a blizzard with winds up to 30-40m/s took us 20 hours to get of the glacier but we made it , barely my truck with only 2 wheel studs on one front wheel, got loose without me noticing
But yes... those welds are pretty critical, and have been reinforced on both sides and shouldn't break again.. but what do you know with 46" tires
but those welds are pretty critical
my friend had his knuckle break of on the middle of Europes biggest Glacier..
luckily he wasn't going very fast and the snow dampened the blow, broke the axle tough but everything else was good, steering, break lines, everything except the axle broke inside, we had welding pins delivered to us from another group nearby , actually had to meet them in a hut 25-30miles away spend the night there and drive to the truck the day after early morning , weld it together, then he only had 3 wheel drive and we had to drive over the glacier to get down the other side, got gaught in a blizzard with winds up to 30-40m/s took us 20 hours to get of the glacier
but we made it , barely my truck with only 2 wheel studs on one front wheel, got loose without me noticing But yes... those welds are pretty critical, and have been reinforced on both sides and shouldn't break again.. but what do you know with 46" tires
That looks really, really, cold......
It was really really cold you have to wear suitable clothes for wheeling like that , the weather was actually not that bad when we welded this , later that day/night we were caught in a blizzard, -22° celcius on my temperature guage and the wind was blowing 30-35m/s so with windchill the cold was probably -30 or more , my LC80 was running fine in that cold, but shaking and I had to constantly go out open the hood and clean the snow around the injector pump, because the accelerator linkage got covered in snow and the engine ran @ around 1500rpm unless I regularly went out and cleaned the snow away, when the weather was at its worst we were making maybe 1km in 1 hour , 7 trucks driving in a row, me in the lead driving by GPS tracks with zero visibility outside , It was quite an adventure... but its definatly not for everyone
pretty much the visibility we had.. the windshield wipers froze.. and were of no use also at times the insides of the windows froze up
you have to wear suitable clothes for wheeling like that , the weather was actually not that bad when we welded this , later that day/night we were caught in a blizzard, -22° celcius on my temperature guage and the wind was blowing 30-35m/s so with windchill the cold was probably -30 or more , my LC80 was running fine in that cold, but shaking and I had to constantly go out open the hood and clean the snow around the injector pump, because the accelerator linkage got covered in snow and the engine ran @ around 1500rpm unless I regularly went out and cleaned the snow away, when the weather was at its worst we were making maybe 1km in 1 hour , 7 trucks driving in a row, me in the lead driving by GPS tracks with zero visibility outside , It was quite an adventure... but its definatly not for everyone 
pretty much the visibility we had.. the windshield wipers froze.. and were of no use
also at times the insides of the windows froze up
