VAhasnoWAVES
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Lake City, Mi
i recently picked up a HP44, welded wedges, that im putting under my cherokee. was originally planning replicate stock geometry, and run short arms on drop brackets, like "Prepmech" did is this thread. but after looking at the cost of a bracket kit, i started to get a little turned off of that idea. then i stumbled across this thread by "twodoorXJ" and fell in love. by piecing together some prefabbed brackets, i could add frame stiffeners to my parts list and spend about the same amount of money. also, making my own arms would be a little costly in the beginning, but id have a lot of parts left over to recoop some cost in the long run.
basically... im wondering about geometry using prefabbed brackets in the manner that twodoorXJ did. i want to run a 3 link on the passenger side in the same manner. i plan to turn the C's and set the pinion angle on my 44, as well as keep it full width. high steer, and build my own track bar. after adding stiffeners, the brackets ive picked out are:
driver side frame
passenger side frame
coil mounts, shocks, LCA's axle side
track bar
UCA axle side
- to me, it makes sense to use the 10 degree ruff stuff UCA mount, and 10 degree ballistics frame side mount. am i off in this thinking?
- how would i go about determining how long to make my arms, and how far to separate the mounts vertically? will these brackets give me what i need/want?
- what joints does everyone suggest? i will be going with ruff stuff.
i was thinking a DOM sleeve at the frame side, with a bushing, as this will see some road miles, and i dont like the idea of two opposite threaded joints at each end, at highway speeds. clayton gave me that piece of concern. is it possibly to make the UCA, LCAs, and track bar with the same size heims to minimize the amount of spares i need, instead of carrying 35232 kids of heims?
also, the brackets i was originally looking at was claytons. what i like the most was their lower coil bucket, and the fact that it was slanted like the OEM mounts, they are the only ones that ive found like this, and i remember someone in another build grabbing them because of it. i forget who it was... the also seem much easier to modify to accept a bump stop, versus this design. im forgetting sway bar links, but i was planning to add those once the rest of the suspension was figured out.
lastly... does anyone have any suggestions for this build? are my plans way off? any good 3 link info?
basically... im wondering about geometry using prefabbed brackets in the manner that twodoorXJ did. i want to run a 3 link on the passenger side in the same manner. i plan to turn the C's and set the pinion angle on my 44, as well as keep it full width. high steer, and build my own track bar. after adding stiffeners, the brackets ive picked out are:
driver side frame
passenger side frame
coil mounts, shocks, LCA's axle side
track bar
UCA axle side
- to me, it makes sense to use the 10 degree ruff stuff UCA mount, and 10 degree ballistics frame side mount. am i off in this thinking?
- how would i go about determining how long to make my arms, and how far to separate the mounts vertically? will these brackets give me what i need/want?
- what joints does everyone suggest? i will be going with ruff stuff.
i was thinking a DOM sleeve at the frame side, with a bushing, as this will see some road miles, and i dont like the idea of two opposite threaded joints at each end, at highway speeds. clayton gave me that piece of concern. is it possibly to make the UCA, LCAs, and track bar with the same size heims to minimize the amount of spares i need, instead of carrying 35232 kids of heims?
also, the brackets i was originally looking at was claytons. what i like the most was their lower coil bucket, and the fact that it was slanted like the OEM mounts, they are the only ones that ive found like this, and i remember someone in another build grabbing them because of it. i forget who it was... the also seem much easier to modify to accept a bump stop, versus this design. im forgetting sway bar links, but i was planning to add those once the rest of the suspension was figured out.
lastly... does anyone have any suggestions for this build? are my plans way off? any good 3 link info?