Steering Ram
Since we had pushed the front
axle so far forward, the steering shaft could not be lengthened to reach the
steering box from the column. I also needed to re-engineer at mounting
bracket for the pump since that portion of the old frame was cut off and
replaced. Seemed like a lot of work to get me back to what I had, so TGTW
Offroad came through again and set me up with this dual ended PSC full hydro
setup. The most challenging part of this was setting up the bull bar mount
for the ram. This is a 'Barnes original' and I've had several compliments
already. A couple people actually paid me the ultimate compliment and are
going to copy my design for their rigs as well. Our original plan (and the
one the tube was bent for) was over the springs. But there was no way to
make this work, so I opted to place the big bar under them, and use the small
hoop to go up and over the ram. The entire inside of the hoop is
re-enforced with 3/8" plate. The tie rods where cut down and then setup so
that I have about 1/2" to 3/4" adjustment in each direction to fine tune toe in.
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JAlbum 6.0
