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98 ZR2 sas

I have had some delays recently, few stitches and school work load, but finally made a little progress.

Got the steering box moved forward, about 4 " from stock.

Steering box forward 4"

Steering box forward 4"


Used XJ steering shaft to extend the column to reach the new box location & operate at the angle I rotated to.

XJ & S10 steering shaft

XJ & S10 steering shaft


New fabricated steering, might be test driving this setup soon.

New crossover steering

New crossover steering

 
There it is next to the K5, and my pop's 03 2wd 1500hd. The s10 looks small next to the full sizes. Maybe its too low ...

Next to my 79.

Next to my 79.


My camber isnt looking right. Been playing around with the caster, which should be right around 6*.

Before I did this work to lower the truck the passenger side wheel always look to have bad camber but the driver was good. Now both sides look out at the top.

Front distance

Front distance


Front Lower view

Front Lower view

 
Looks sweet now. Guess I was onto something saying it looked better lower :D

Btw I had to ditch my full histeer for that style steering once I realized that low rigs cant really exist with high steer.
 
Thanks Stomis. This baby is a dialed in now. Low is the way to go.

Got a couple things coming up as I prep for a summer internship in Bakersfield, CA. Gonna do some cross country trippin after finals next week.

Stay tuned everybody.
 
I finished the spring quarter of EWU engineering & hit the road to Bakersfield, CA. I will be working with my uncle, who is a petroleum engineer.

At work summer '18

At work summer '18


I put together a mobile tool box so that I could have my own tools with me for the summer.

Mobile tool box, side

Mobile tool box, side

Mobile tool box, rear

Mobile tool box, rear


I will be in Bakersfield for most of the summer. I'll have to reach out to some CK5 members in the area to see what is going on down here.
 
What did you use for drag link and tie rod ends to do the steering setup like you did? I have always wanted to try and go that route to get away from buying a new pass side knuckle or the associated parts for regular crossover steering.
 
At the passenger knuckle I used a Napa tie rod end # PCC ES2233L. That has left hand threads & a boss for a steering damper. I drilled the boss out to accept a Ruff Stuff tapered steering knuckle insert, part # INSSTEER. That allowed me to run the drag link down to the tie rod end.

The steering was completed with, I think, 1 1/2" x 0.250" DOM tubing for the lengths. & Machined, threaded inserts welded to the tubing. I'll get a pic in the morning.
 
I should have done that on mine. Would have made the trac bar location way easier.
 
Truckman4life said:
What did you use for drag link and tie rod ends to do the steering setup like you did? I have always wanted to try and go that route to get away from buying a new pass side knuckle or the associated parts for regular crossover steering.
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The downside to that steering on a leaf front with spring over is it can be not so straight forward. You may need to zig zag bend the drag link in order to clear leaf spring on the passenger side. And when you do that if you go this route make sure you set the placement of that bend with steering at full right lock and full droop on the passenger side.

jekquistk5 said:
I should have done that on mine. Would have made the trac bar location way easier.
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That was the other reason I did this. I was able to exactly match both length and angle of trac bar to draglink.





Tool box looks good. Im curious about your camber issue. I did some work on a toyota with a brand new rock assault housing and it looked the exact same way. Im curious if its like an optical illusion or something to be honest.
 
I did have way too much toe in, which I fixed after driving down here (1100 miles) and wearing the outside of the front tires smooth. Now it's adjusted to about 0.2* instead of 2.0*.

I think I can observe tire wear now to see if the alignment is off.
 
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