Another Air Ride Build - 05 TXT

[sunday_money]

Originally Posted by mazdawg(Mikey)

I like the negative camber

Haha, I kinda liked the look. Just not sure about the ride quality. And wearing out the inside edge of my tires. Lol.

[TerryH]

Originally Posted by sunday_money

Nah its not a welding issue. I just flipped the spindles over and stuck the bolts through them trying to relocate the tie rod. All I have to do is yank the bolts back out and flip it back over. The spindles are angled down from the factory apparently which I didn't notice. So when I flipped it over it angles them up. I think that's the case anyway.

Ahhh...I see.

[sunday_money]

So I need to get the tie rod back down underneath the axle. I am thinking of going to a setup like this that uses an adapter to convert to the heim style ends. Any thoughts if this would work?

[TopherAndTick]

Sunday, I used that kinda setup on a TXT I lifted by home made means.
It worked fine. I ran a rod from the steering shaft to drivers side spindle. Then ties the two front wheels together with a level bar with heims.
Then, I set the distance from center to drivers side to be aligned, and then set distance from right to left to be aligned. (make sense?)

[mazdawg(Mikey)]

couldn't you just build spacers and raise the rack and pinion to match the raised spindle location?

[sunday_money]

Originally Posted by TopherAndTick

Sunday, I used that kinda setup on a TXT I lifted by home made means.
It worked fine. I ran a rod from the steering shaft to drivers side spindle. Then ties the two front wheels together with a level bar with heims.
Then, I set the distance from center to drivers side to be aligned, and then set distance from right to left to be aligned. (make sense?)

That's exactly what I'm doing! Thanks for the input man. Should have something together this weekend.

[sunday_money]

Originally Posted by mazdawg(Mikey)

couldn't you just build spacers and raise the rack and pinion to match the raised spindle location?

Yeah the rack isn't the issue. I am adding some spacers to raise it up but there is a tie rod that connects both spindles so that when the rack turns one wheel the rod connects to the other. The rod previously ran across right under the axle. When the spindles got raised now the rod won't clear the axle. I'll take some pics later. I'm working on a fix.

[sunday_money]

Here is where the rod was located previously.

[sunday_money]

Here is the idea I am playing with. This is just a piece of round tube. I'm going to cut the stick tie rod and slip this over the ends and weld. Dropping it back to the original location.

[mazdawg(Mikey)]

oooohhhhh I see what you mean now