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D44 Steering Arm Question

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I pulled a xover/histeer setup today wanting to swap it over to my ck5. The setup uses standard steering arm.. and from what I have read and been told I would need a tall arm to clear the leaf pack. Has anyone been able to use the standard arms maybe using a spacer? And if so where could I aquire a set? I just don't feel like having to order tall arms and than trying and sell the standards.

Thanks in advance for any insight.
 
High steer on a D44 is questionable on a fullsize rig. That's a LOT of stress to place on the studs on those arms. Note that the crazy Jeep people use fancy aftermarket knuckles with four studs to take more abuse.

That said, yep, you can get 1/2" and 1" thick spacers, with the accompanying longer stud kits, from any number of vendors. My choice happens to be WFO:

http://www.wfoconcepts.com/cr/Steering-Arm-Spacers/3163/3168/3696

You will be in for some fun to make the tie rod and draglink clear the springs and crossmember (BTDT ;) ) I personally recommend a straight draglink, and switching to e.g. the ORD high-clearance crossmember:

http://offroaddesign.com/catalog/enginecrossmember.htm

It's highly dependent on your particular springs and mounting, design of the arms, etc etc, so expect to do lots of mocking-up and tweaking.

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Thanks for the insight, I think after further research I will probably ditch the hi-steer portion and just go with the cross over.
 
Put the crossover stuff on first and see if you have clearance issues, then go from there. I have clearance issues right now, but that's cause I'm using zero-rates and shims which puts my draglink closer to the leafs.

Just run the standard crossover and when you get a chance, pick up an HD tierod. :)
 
Yeah you shouldn't need a spacer or a tall arm unless you are running a Zero rate under the front springs or some really thick leaf packs.

Post up what arm you got.

The only difference between crossover and hi steer is the location of the tie rod and the addition of the second arm on the driver side knuckle.
 
Thanks again for the replies K85 Octane and MTBLAZER89.

The arms appear to be North West Fab's D44 Flat arm, link below. And after further inspection of the knuckles seem to be a dedenbear style using 4 bolts.
edit, I cant post a link but their website is northwestfab . com
 
Yep, we know NWFab. Good folks.

That said, a spacer's gonna be tough to find in the four-hole... might have to make your own. (Which is doable, but a pain.)

However, you may not need a spacer if you only use the passenger side arm and the draglink.

There's a recent thread about fitment issues going:

http://coloradok5.com/forums/showthread.php?t=289276

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front packs are a tuff country 4" lift spring.. no zero rates / overloads etc


 
K85 Octane said:
I'm running the 4" TC leafs with 0-rate, hence the problem in that linked thread, but you shouldn't have a problem. :waytogo:
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Thanks, im hoping tomorrow I can get it mocked up, going to grab some 1ton tre's after work and go from there :thumb:
 
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