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Full hydro on Dana 60

My knuckles were custom built by Greeniek30 on here... Arms and knuckles are one piece... They are massive...:D
 
38377k5 said:
Pictures?
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Double shear were the hiem for the tie rod goes... Also puts my tie rod behind the axle and above the springs...


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those arms look like a nice setup, but hard for me to not like my new ones that i just put together. virgina 4x4. the difference in the amount of meat on the double shear is pretty big. these are machined out of a solid block of 2". running psc kit with single ended ram.

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ssyork said:
those arms look like a nice setup, but hard for me to not like my new ones that i just put together. virgina 4x4. the difference in the amount of meat on the double shear is pretty big. these are machined out of a solid block of 2". running psc kit with single ended ram.
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Those are nice...:waytogo:

But, mine were free...:woot:

Well kinda, I traded my stock knuckles for these... The knuckle itself has also been beefed up with 1/4" flat stock... In person they are really impressive...
 
MNorby said:
I just got these arms and knuckles for my full hydro conversion
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DEad sexy who makes those arms?


dirtygoat said:
Double shear were the hiem for the tie rod goes... Also puts my tie rod behind the axle and above the springs...


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Looks like a stock knuckle with an arm weled to it? Is that the case?

ssyork said:
those arms look like a nice setup, but hard for me to not like my new ones that i just put together. virgina 4x4. the difference in the amount of meat on the double shear is pretty big. these are machined out of a solid block of 2". running psc kit with single ended ram.
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Are those the same as MNorby's?
 
Mine are from Virginia 4x4 like ssyork's too. Mine are the keyed 6 bolt ones for solid knuckles and his are for reid knuckles.
 
boz42 said:
Looks like a stock knuckle with an arm weled to it? Is that the case?
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Yes, the arms are bolted and welded with a formed 1/4" strap welded down the front too. I made them before aftermarket knuckles were available.
 
Attached below are my two top quality cell phone pictures. I didn't want to run the full hydro on a set of high steer arms because I know the stock knuckles are prone to breaking up there, plus I would have clearance issues. Low steer I didn't want to do because of my ram/mount being in harms way.

What I ended up going with was building my own upper steering arms and tieing them into my lower steering arms, hopefully decreasing the chances of my knuckles breaking. I obviously don't have my leaf springs on in these pictures but the shaft connecting my ram to my knuckles will be 1/2" below my leaf springs at full compression.

I semi-copied a friend of mines set up because he's been running on stock knuckles for close to 8 years I guess with no complaints. Haven't ran this setup yet, but it should do exactly what I need it to.

Matt

EDIT:In the pictures my ram and ram mount are just laying there because I threw them up for a picture real quick.

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What size plate did you make the arm part out of? Looks like there could be a ton of twisting type stress because of the long bolt going from one hole to the other. But Artec Ind. just came out with something very similar, so it must work.
 
ssyork said:
What size plate did you make the arm part out of? Looks like there could be a ton of twisting type stress because of the long bolt going from one hole to the other. But Artec Ind. just came out with something very similar, so it must work.
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Plate on top is 7/8" thick. There actually isn't one through bolt. Pictures suck but on the upper arm there is a 3/4" bolt and on the bottom is another. In the center where the heim is there is a 3/4" threaded piece of hardened stainless.
 
1976Blazer76 said:
Plate on top is 7/8" thick. There actually isn't one through bolt. Pictures suck but on the upper arm there is a 3/4" bolt and on the bottom is another. In the center where the heim is there is a 3/4" threaded piece of hardened stainless.
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That sounds a ton more solid than the picture that I came up with in my small brain! I would say that should work quite nicely. Did you see the Artec ones?
 
ssyork said:
That sounds a ton more solid than the picture that I came up with in my small brain! I would say that should work quite nicely. Did you see the Artec ones?
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I've never heard of that company until now (those things are beef). After talking with my friend and going after this design, it just makes sense. Like I said before he's ran on similar for years without a hitch, hopefully I can do the same. He is 3 linked in the front but the principle is still there.
 
Any reason I couldn't buy the rest of the parts for high steer and just bolt the passenger arm on the drivers side and vise versa so they would point backwards? I like the whole idea of mounting the set up behind the axle to keep it out of harms way.
 
GsxrMike said:
Any reason I couldn't buy the rest of the parts for high steer and just bolt the passenger arm on the drivers side and vise versa so they would point backwards? I like the whole idea of mounting the set up behind the axle to keep it out of harms way.
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I wouldn't see a problem with that as long as your steering arms are straight and they don't have a machined angle in them where the tierod/heim connects.
 
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