Trim Packer Limit to OME Castor Corr. (1 Viewer)

[tarbe]

Anyone feel like they can state with a degree of certainty how many mm of packers one can add to an OME heavy (with the castor correction bushings installed) before you start messing up the castor to where you need additional correction?

I'm looking at an additional 15mm in the front. I know 15mm doesn't sound like much, but it is a 30% increase from design.

tia for the opinions,

 

[clownmidget]

OME caster correction

Tim,
If you have the 850 front springs and just the stock front bumper you will not likely notice an additional 15-mm of spacers. That's just my opinion and what I've gathered from reading every truck seems to behave differently to how it changes once lifted. I had a similar set up with the 1" Mr. Gasket spacers and it rode fine but when I went with the 1.5" aluminum spacers it was too much and the steering really seemed to get dicey. If you're bored you can always do this mod that Bjowett did and I copied. This is with 6" springs and another caster correction bushing thrown into the rear mount of the control arm as well. It drives pretty near stock like this. Well except for the 6" of lift and bigger tires. Oh and the turbo. But other than that it drives pretty much like stock.
Mike R.

 

[tarbe]

Cool - thanks.

It is a DD, so I'm trying to get near the limit, without going crazy. Amazing how we'll agonize over 6 tenths of an inch....bunch of goobers we are!

 

[elmariachi]

Amazing how we'll agonize over 6 tenths of an inch....bunch of goobers we are!

Speak for yourself. Whadda you waiting on.??..bring that sucka up here to Houston and we'll knock that birf job out in my garage.

Jim

 

[tarbe]

Speak for yourself. %$#@^ Whadda you waiting on.??..bring that sucka up here to Houston and we'll knock that birf job out in my garage.

Jim

My wife is working part time during tax season. I was going to wait to tackle my first birf job until after she is done (end of April) so if my little job ran past Sunday I could use her van to drive to work

BTW - I got my pinstripes hunting in South Texas, but I actually live in Houston (NW). I take it you've done the birfs before?

 

[elmariachi]

I just sent you a PM.

 

[tarbe]

Back at ya!

 

[PKP80]

Anyone feel like they can state with a degree of certainty how many mm of packers one can add to an OME heavy (with the castor correction bushings installed) before you start messing up the castor to where you need additional correction?

I'm looking at an additional 15mm in the front. I know 15mm doesn't sound like much, but it is a 30% increase from design.

tia for the opinions,

I"m 10mm in front and back about to go 20mm in front leaving the 10mm in back. I've talked to guys who have put up to 25mm with no real problem. 20mm is just about 1in more than that and I think sway bar disconnects and a few other accessories are really needed.

-Sam-

 

[concretejungle]

Tim,
If you have the 850 front springs and just the stock front bumper you will not likely notice an additional 15-mm of spacers. That's just my opinion and what I've gathered from reading every truck seems to behave differently to how it changes once lifted. I had a similar set up with the 1" Mr. Gasket spacers and it rode fine but when I went with the 1.5" aluminum spacers it was too much and the steering really seemed to get dicey. If you're bored you can always do this mod that Bjowett did and I copied. This is with 6" springs and another caster correction bushing thrown into the rear mount of the control arm as well. It drives pretty near stock like this. Well except for the 6" of lift and bigger tires. Oh and the turbo. But other than that it drives pretty much like stock.
Mike R.

Clown, you have the CC bushing offset forward in the rear, the CC bushing offset upwards/slightly back in the front, but what about the middle one? Can you tell i'm bored. ........i was actually really considering trying to incorporate this into a set of slee's caster plates for variable caster settings. Could you snap just a few more pics?

Thanks,
Alex