CartsXJ
NAXJA Forum User
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- Glenville, NY
Not as much fun and more time consuming than I thought, but isn't everything we do.
1. The drag link JKS sends was too long for me. I used a stock pitman arm and mounted the TRE as they would stock and the ended up cutting 1.5" off each end of the draglink and 1" off the stock WJ TRE just to get it close and it's still too long by about half of turn of the steering wheel. The plan is to find a piece of tubing stock and cut the threaded ends off the JKS draglink and convert them into tubing bungs and weld them into the tube and make a custom draglink.
2. My MM hub kit with sport-trac rotors still required spacing of the caliper mounts to center the rotor.
3. THe MM and Warn kits uses CJ front wheel bearings for their hubs, both the 5 on 4.5" and 5 on 5.5" kits. Not Ranger bearings like previous thought.
4. The stock bend in the WJ pitman arm TRE sucks, totally the wrong bend. Can be fixed in a press very easily.
Haven't gotten to the trackbar yet. But as it stands with the stock pitman arm and RE HD trackbar bracket and stock axle mount, no noticeable bump steer.
Will apply more info, as the conversion procedes.
Oh yeah.........becareful on seating the brakes and doing brake checks, you might find yourself picking your teeth out of the steering wheel.
1. The drag link JKS sends was too long for me. I used a stock pitman arm and mounted the TRE as they would stock and the ended up cutting 1.5" off each end of the draglink and 1" off the stock WJ TRE just to get it close and it's still too long by about half of turn of the steering wheel. The plan is to find a piece of tubing stock and cut the threaded ends off the JKS draglink and convert them into tubing bungs and weld them into the tube and make a custom draglink.
2. My MM hub kit with sport-trac rotors still required spacing of the caliper mounts to center the rotor.
3. THe MM and Warn kits uses CJ front wheel bearings for their hubs, both the 5 on 4.5" and 5 on 5.5" kits. Not Ranger bearings like previous thought.
4. The stock bend in the WJ pitman arm TRE sucks, totally the wrong bend. Can be fixed in a press very easily.
Haven't gotten to the trackbar yet. But as it stands with the stock pitman arm and RE HD trackbar bracket and stock axle mount, no noticeable bump steer.
Will apply more info, as the conversion procedes.
Oh yeah.........becareful on seating the brakes and doing brake checks, you might find yourself picking your teeth out of the steering wheel.