rear truss design ideas

[Jonny-K5]

im moving this post to a new thread, rear axle is ever so slightly bowed. i want to straighten it out and strenghten it up some. here is the post

after looking it over for awhile, and since its only mildly bent... i think im going to try trussing it. if it ends up not working, owell... it would be good experience.

here's what i think i'll do. jack the rear end up with a floor jack under the center section. this will unload/straighten the axle enough to build the truss. i took someone elses rear axle pic and did some quick design ideas.here's 3 different setups i came up with.

yellow is truss tube(not sure what material yet).

green would be gusseting,1/4" plate maybe?

red is tube tying into pinion area. this will be attached similar to a M.O.O. truss with a clamp style attachment.mainly causs i dont want to weld on the cast. i think a solid clamp setup will suffice for this portion.

height of the triangle will be as much as i can get away with and still clear the floor at full stuff.these are just rough ideas, so any advise would be greatly appreciated. which one looks best? what would you change? thanks

 

[captaininsano]

Thats what I did when I built that, jacked the truck under the diff to kinda load the tubes, not sure if that really helped, mine was not bent though. That triangle would go right through my gas tank, stock configuration would not matter though. Have fun building it, post pics!

 

[Jonny-K5]

how far back is your axle? thanks for the pic by the way

 

[captaininsano]

Its not so much how far back the axle is, but how far forward the back of the rig is, I chopped 7 inches out of it. Moved everything forward to accomodate.

 

[Jonny-K5]

ohhh ic.pretty cool

ttt, anyone have any comments?

 

[Z3PR]

I like these or even this set up would be kewl.

 

[Jonny-K5]

M.O.O. makes some cool stuff. i want to build this one myself tho. im leaning towards the third pic. something along those lines anyway.

 

[Jonny-K5]

ttt anyone?