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'72 K5 - Greg's @MightAsWellK5 Build

This is the build description. I will improve this later. (GB)
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I am on page 131. 100 is way too many because even if it only take 5 seconds to load all pictures it's annoying when you are trying to go straight to the bottom and it keeps moving up on you. But 10 is too little, annoying flipping through too many pages, I use 30 posts/page, I find that to be perfect.

Greg, How do you plan to brace the other side of the lower shock bolt on the axle?
 
folkenheath said:
I am on page 131. 100 is way too many because even if it only take 5 seconds to load all pictures it's annoying when you are trying to go straight to the bottom and it keeps moving up on you. But 10 is too little, annoying flipping through too many pages, I use 30 posts/page, I find that to be perfect.

Greg, How do you plan to brace the other side of the lower shock bolt on the axle?
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Weird. I figured that once you've visited the page, most of the images are stored in your local cache anyway... so most of the page gets rebuilt from files in your local machine. Only the newest images (from the last update) get downloaded from the slow interweb connection.... :dunno:

As far as the lower mount goes, I'm currently using a super-long 5/8" bolt to extend the upper link mount over and use that for the strut. It puts the lower mount in a "lateral" bolt configuration instead of the preferred "longitudinal" (Front to back) layout. I was warned that I might run out of angularity on the lower heim if I leave it that way... so I'll have to build some kind of tower structure adjacent to the upper link mount bracket and set the holes up to run the correct way.


-G
 
Greg72 said:
Weird. I figured that once you've visited the page, most of the images are stored in your local cache anyway... so most of the page gets rebuilt from files in your local machine. Only the newest images (from the last update) get downloaded from the slow interweb connection.... :dunno:

As far as the lower mount goes, I'm currently using a super-long 5/8" bolt to extend the upper link mount over and use that for the strut. It puts the lower mount in a "lateral" bolt configuration instead of the preferred "longitudinal" (Front to back) layout. I was warned that I might run out of angularity on the lower heim if I leave it that way... so I'll have to build some kind of tower structure adjacent to the upper link mount bracket and set the holes up to run the correct way.

-G
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That may be true depending on how your files are setup, but back when I tried 100 posts/page it drove me crazy so I found a middle ground and stuck with it.

Also, it should be pretty easy to droop one side down 16" and see what the articulation angle is and then see the angle limit of the rod end on the bottom of the shock. If it doesn't bind it shouldn't matter. I put my lower shocks with the bolts parallel to the axle on the front, but I only have 14" shocks there. But I think it would be nice to be able to take the shocks off without loosening the upper link, although I suppose you could just pull the bolt out partway so maybe it doesn't matter.
 
Heath,

Remember.... when I pull the ORI bolt out, the truck collapses on top of me anyway since it's both the shock AND the spring. :yikes:

I agree that it would be better to leave the link mount attached when servicing the strut. :waytogo:


-G
 
If you guys prefer.... (in the interest of faster load times for those of you with slow internet connections)..... I can convert all of my photos from .jpg to ascii so that they are MUCH smaller file sizes....

ascii.jpg



......and awaiting comments from dremu in 3........2..........1..........

:D


-G
 
Greg72 said:
Heath,

Remember.... when I pull the ORI bolt out, the truck collapses on top of me anyway since it's both the shock AND the spring. :yikes:

-G
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Yes, that is no different than a coilover in that regard, you just have an air spring instead of a coil spring. It's just easier if you don't have to wrestle the axle into position for the link mount bolt to slide through as well.

As for the pic, I can kind of figure it out, since I already saw that pic before. But I still prefer the jpg, just a little. :haha:
 
Greg72 said:
If you guys prefer.... (in the interest of faster load times for those of you with slow internet connections)..... I can convert all of my photos from .jpg to ascii so that they are MUCH smaller file sizes....


......and awaiting comments from dremu in 3........2..........1..........

:D


-G
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Go put a shoe on your head.

Oddly, I was just doing some conversions like that, to import a graphic into OpenSCAD for 3D printing, downsizing the image to like 128x128 and greyscale it. In this day of gigapixel cameras it just seems R-O-N-G-E... :haha:

-- A
 
I like looking at the jpegs so I'll just continue to leave it at 10 posts per page.

Martin
 
For the evening crew...

Rockslider Mount v2.0

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Discuss....critique.......analyze.

:thinking:


-G
 
I like it - two critiques -

1) the red taper on the left should not bottom out against that washer - there should be a gap there so it gets tighter as bolt is tightened

2) If you can get away with it, I would not have the shoulder/lip on the mount (above and below your bolt head in pic)- it defeats the angled surfaces -

I would rely purely on the angled surfaces clamping with the bolt to align/mount.
 
One more - that mount will be tighter than (insert favorite metaphor for tightness)

Might need a way to "unmount" it if dirt gets in those surfaces.
 
Yeah, could end up like a big Morris Taper...which means you could use the same slot and wedge idea for removal.
 
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