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Ok, so. High-steer just doesnt work with coils & radius arms, its a packaging nightmare. So lets do something else. One new draglink and tie-rod custom made by my friends over at EMS Offroad, with a fresh cvoat of Chassis Black on them. The draglink is 1.25" .250" wall, and for the tierod we stepped up to 1.5" .375" wall. Beef!  If im replacing the tubing, im replacing the TREs. For the draglink im running ES2027L and ES2234R. For the tierod im running ES2233L and another ES2234R. The ES2233L needed to be reamed larger to fir the ES22334R  Since the tierod got bigger my original clamp mount for the steering ram wouldnt fit, so i made a new one
After 20+ years of wheeling abuse, the tapered holes in the knuckles were getting a bit sloppy. So i ordered a set of tapered repair sleeves from ORD. There's a re bit mnore expensive than most other, but they are also a lot nicer than pretty much everyone elses too.
With the steering links installed and a rough alignment done, i found a problem  When steering left to full lock, the bigger ram clamp contacts the diff cover   The simplest solution, seemed to be to move the fixed ram mount left towards the center of the vehicle, so the clamp could go further left as well, and hopefully clear the diff cover. The original mount:  Tabs cut off/cleaned up:  ...and flipped around, to move the ram 1.5" closer to the center of the truck. I also added that small gusset between the tabs to stiffen it up a bit  Much better now!  Full right:  ...and full left. Much better now  Nothing left to do now, but a proper front-end alignment, and then i threw the rollers back on. All thats left now is to get it outside, put the 42s back on, make sure the brakes and steering are 100%, and we're done!  Comments are closed.
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