I welded the bracket on to the drop bracket yesterday after school. then did a test fit and still everything looks good. Im taking my radius arm extensions over to a friends house in a week so he can weld them on my arms for me, His welder is a 220v instead of mine which is 110v .He also has gas instead of my crappy flux core. but......for x-mas im getting the gas so I can get better looking welds with no cleaning
here are pics
also im going to be bolting the whole new bracket to the frame instead of welding it.
Sounds like a plan. And bolts can be removed to get to those arm bushings. Going with moog? or Energy? Thinking about hardened steel?
"It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt." - Mark Twain
'70 f250 4x4 Crew cab 460/C6 '72 F100 390/C6 9.8 MPG AVG. '89 Mercury Cougar LS Dual Exh. V6 . 18.9 MPG AVG. In Town.
I don't want to give em a heart-attack. That is what would happen if I answered the door in the buff. Heck it almost scares me to death when I step out of the shower and look in the mirror.~Mancar1~
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Cool, Maybe you could write a tech article on this.
If only I was as inventive.
"It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt." - Mark Twain
'70 f250 4x4 Crew cab 460/C6 '72 F100 390/C6 9.8 MPG AVG. '89 Mercury Cougar LS Dual Exh. V6 . 18.9 MPG AVG. In Town.
I don't want to give em a heart-attack. That is what would happen if I answered the door in the buff. Heck it almost scares me to death when I step out of the shower and look in the mirror.~Mancar1~
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rjewkes wrote:Cool, Maybe you could write a tech article on this.
If only I was as inventive.
Yea I probably will make a article on this. im kindof making this my article thread for now though .... that I will keep updating until Im done with this project.
today I took the right radius arm off, found out at the end it is bent! im having trouble on getting the left side radius arm bolt out of the i-beam, I need to use alot of heat. I need to get it out by friday so I can take them to my buddys and get the extensions welded on. So ill update this weekend. here are pics. you can see the end is warn, but I think it will be fine with the very beefy extension on.
ok today I welded my arms at my buddys shop. we drilled a hole through the extensions so we can weld it in for more strength. everything turned out awesome.
what do you mean by giving you more flex. when you told us about why you were doing this. what do you get out of extending them. i just don't understand.
Flex will basically be wheel travel. With the pivot point on the radius arms further back it will have more range of motion up and down at the front with the larger springs when the vehicle is off camber.
460 crew wrote:Flex will basically be wheel travel. With the pivot point on the radius arms further back it will have more range of motion up and down at the front with the larger springs when the vehicle is off camber.
yep 460 pretty much explained it all. but the main reason I extended them was because I didnt want to drop the radius arm in the stock location. I wanted to do it farther back on the frame.
