Francesco
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Ventura County
Hello,
A while back I bought a Ford Dana 44 to shorten for my Jeep Comanche. I have so far, cut the tubes and clocked the Inner Cs for 6 degrees of caster and 7 degrees of pinion angle roughly, and have purchased gears, a locker, shafts, and basically everything. I'm getting close to welding mounts on, and according to Clayon, the Uppers face inward with around 11-12 degrees of turn on them, and the outers with roughly 5 degrees facing outwards. My question is this:
When welding on mounts, do I set the caster to roughly 6 degrees, and then weld on all of the mounts, so they are perpendicular with the axle, as in basically straight up and down? Or do I angle them outwards? I have uppers, lowers, coil bucket, and track bar mounts to weld on. Planning on doing the coil buckets, as well as the control arm mounts(first tacked of course), then mounting the axle, and cycling, then measuring the drag link to get a track bar as parallel and equal length as possible.
Thanks,
Francesco
A while back I bought a Ford Dana 44 to shorten for my Jeep Comanche. I have so far, cut the tubes and clocked the Inner Cs for 6 degrees of caster and 7 degrees of pinion angle roughly, and have purchased gears, a locker, shafts, and basically everything. I'm getting close to welding mounts on, and according to Clayon, the Uppers face inward with around 11-12 degrees of turn on them, and the outers with roughly 5 degrees facing outwards. My question is this:
When welding on mounts, do I set the caster to roughly 6 degrees, and then weld on all of the mounts, so they are perpendicular with the axle, as in basically straight up and down? Or do I angle them outwards? I have uppers, lowers, coil bucket, and track bar mounts to weld on. Planning on doing the coil buckets, as well as the control arm mounts(first tacked of course), then mounting the axle, and cycling, then measuring the drag link to get a track bar as parallel and equal length as possible.
Thanks,
Francesco