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04-10-2013, 05:04 PM | #1 |
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Third times a charm...
Anyone done something once and thought.."this will work great, I thought of everything and i love the way it looks"? well, I did, TWICE! So hopefully this will be the last time. Thoughts and comments are welcome to keep me from steering down the wrong path again.
This is the second attempt in which I fixed my first thrashing of notching the rear of my 55'. So some quick thoughts on this fix was.. - I should give my self plenty of room to mount the air bags on the axle, I won't want to use the bed anyway so who cares if I make 12" notch. - I doubt the handling truck will change much if I mount the bags close to each other. Here's the beginning of a fresh start.
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04-10-2013, 06:47 PM | #2 |
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Re: Third times a charm...
never mind, did not see the 4 link at first.
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04-10-2013, 07:41 PM | #3 |
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Re: Third times a charm...
looks like your setting it up to lay frame, the body on a tf truck hangs 6'' below the frame
keep that in mind when you set it up.
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05-02-2013, 12:31 AM | #4 |
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Re: Third times a charm...
Fabbed up the trailing arm brackets
Posted via Mobile Device Got the rear half welded in Posted via Mobile Device Need to finish weld the trailing arms and weld in the bag mounts Posted via Mobile Device Posted via Mobile Device
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05-02-2013, 12:47 AM | #5 |
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Re: Third times a charm...
Looks good.
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05-07-2013, 05:41 PM | #6 |
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Re: Third times a charm...
Finished up the front trailing arm mounts and fabbed up the upper bag mounts.
Here's how it will look...for now.
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05-07-2013, 08:03 PM | #7 |
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Re: Third times a charm...
Those came out nice.
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05-07-2013, 08:18 PM | #8 |
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Re: Third times a charm...
Thx. Can't tell you how much easier fabrication has been since buying a plasma cutter!
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05-08-2013, 06:51 AM | #9 |
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Re: Third times a charm...
Only one trailing arm per side now? I would be leary of mounting the airbag in the middle of the trailing arm like that. You may be asking for trouble with the arm getting bent there if you take a shockload to the rear axle or wheel. Then again I may not be right. I have not seen one setup like this.
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05-08-2013, 07:58 AM | #10 |
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Re: Third times a charm...
Great job on the fab work.
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05-08-2013, 10:41 AM | #11 |
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Re: Third times a charm...
yeap. the more you use it the more you like it!
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Re: Third times a charm...
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05-09-2013, 06:04 AM | #13 |
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Re: Third times a charm...
With only one trailing arm per side what is going to keep the rearend from rolling/pivoting at the axle connection?
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05-09-2013, 10:21 AM | #14 |
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Re: Third times a charm...
I'm still in the process of fabbing a wishbone.
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