D35 TTB beam angle

[scotts90ranger]

FOUND EM! They were next to the scrap barrel by where I kept the stick welder when it was in the garage, under the pile of funnels of course... The 6' stick of 1/4" wall 2" tubing was where it has been so I knew where it was...

Now to work up a rough plan in my noggin, get some material in the shop, get the Ranger in the shop, get the shop clean enough to do a big project, take some measurements then get to fabbing a new transmission mount with removable center with radius arm mounts. I have ideas, just gotta make it happen, it's going to take a bunch of jack stands to make this happen conveniently I have 6...

I'm tired of the tires hitting the firewall so I'm going to scoot the front axle a little forward which will gain me like 2" of suspension travel just doing that, looking forward to the test run!

 

[BlackBII]

I moved my front axle forward a bit as well and it really helped. Do you know what coils you are going to be using? I knew my Skyjacker 6" coils would be sitting at 15" tall when the truck was at ride height, so I mocked everything up with the top of the beam about 15" away from the coil bucket and it made it easy.

 

[scotts90ranger]

I've been using the thing for like 13 years with some random lift I got off craigslist, it had the good brackets for the beams but the cheezy drop brackets for the radius arm crossmember and some red coils... I'm just fixing what I meant to do years ago .

If the rain holds off long enough tonight I'll wash it off and get it in the shop tomorrow to start looking at, gotta get my plate stock and everything in one spot and get a spot big enough for the project and fabrication in the shop...

 

[scotts90ranger]

I've dug into the thing enough and taken some measurements to figure out the why of some of what it does...

The passenger wheelbase is about 1" shorter than the drivers side and the passenger beam angle is like 8 degrees while the drivers side is like 2 degrees. I'm pretty sure I know why it's like that but whatever, it still needs longer radius arms!

Have the radius arm bolts into the beam out so far and the springs out and stuff, about to drop the radius arm crossmember and pry the radius arms off... probably should have started with making a transmission crossmember but I guess I'm just going to do do it all at once...

 

[franklin2]

Having a different caster number side to side is one of the main causes of a vehicle to pull to the left or the right as you are trying to go straight.

 

[scotts90ranger]

I have the fully adjustable bushings, I think I accounted reasonably with those as it didn't pull bad, drove pretty well considering...

 

[901wd#2]

The early 84 maybe 85 transmission crossmember tucks inside the frame rails and clears everything.

 

[scotts90ranger]

I've thought about that but the transmission crossmember needs to be where I want my radius arm pivots to be so I'm going to try to incorporate them together with a removable center section for transmission and transfer case servicing...