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Comanche
skibum:
The only sound you will need to hear is the poor rocks getting smashed by those custom rock rails & bumpers
The 4.0L & AX15 are a great combo. The 231 should hold up ok. Might not want to drive it like ROCK tho. Thats a lot of heavy drive train to be turning (D60 & Sterling 10.5 W/37s).
Flex:
So Duece came over today and we got lots of stuff done. The welds on the inner c's have been ground off ready to be heated and turned to the desired caster, also most of the brackets have been welded and assembled so im hoping tomorrow i can start tacking brackets in place then pull the axle and get the knuckles turned. Also the interior in nearly 100% complete, sry no pics of the interior.
BlacXJeep:
a few more pics i snagged crawling around under the jeep.
Flex:
So today we turned the inner C's and wow was this interesting, so we ended up putting the axle up on the bench and in the vice, the pinion was in a position so that when we beat on the inner C's the axle couldn't rotate due to the pinion being pushed into the bench, also we positioned a jack under the opposite ear of the inner c this aloud to keep a constant pressure on the C so that it wouldn't take as much force to turn. After everything was set up we stuffed ice inside the axle tube this would keep the tube itself from heating up and expanding when we heated the inner c, after everything was ready to go we got the oxy acetylene torch fired up, we where using a cutting nozzle size 3 this is normally used for cutting 3-6" steel however since the bottles im using don't have enough volume to be able to allow the acetylene to go from a liquid to a gas fast enough to get this big of a tip coned out and ready to cut, this fact along with a little but of extra distance aloud use to just heat the C's instead of cut them, it took about 3-4 min of heating the C's and them some hits with a 10 lb sledge and we where able to turn the C's back 10.5 degrees this will compute to 5 degrees of caster once we get the rig all together. Here's some pics to clear up the confusion.
This is the setup we tried first, the pinion was pushing down into the cart and the it was flexing way to much, the jack sledge combo worked much better
BlacXJeep:
wow, glad you got it done, when you told me about it I was a little skeptical.
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