curious: why did you go with rubber bushings on the uppers to the frame instead of heims/johnnyjoints? if you align it then jump it your alignment is not gonna stay straight unless you tack weld it or something... also yes why the heim on the lower? is that your alignment screw?
We have set up the heim so we can change the camber of the truck at will. I will post a video of the cycle when I can. You will see how it all works when it's done. We have done it on one of the trucks that races in VORRA. It has gone through all the tests and is extremely strong. Basically imagine driving to pismo and you obviously don't want your camber to be drooped on the highway like you do in the sand or dirt. So when you get there you just spin the heim on threads it's on to change the camber of the truck.
Not my uppers or lowers... Those are the caminos. We were checking the lower heim for the camber adjustment. We're using nylatron bushings on LCA (Lower control arm) Upper/UCA/J arms will have Heims
Ball joints are rated at 44k lbs (less then the energy created by jumping big). My heim is rated over 112k lbs at it's weakest. Uniball good for over 120k lbs.
My truck is still sitting the same it was. With no fenders and on jacks. Nothing has changed but spindles and lowers. Doing uppers this weekend. And hopefully get the subframe done this next week so we can start cycling and dialing in front end.
Im gonna be reading this thread from start to finish. So are you guys making a kit for trucks, or what i think you said, whole trucks?
We have some kits for other trucks just not ford yet. My kit will be essentially what it is but I will have an upgraded subframe so it won't use stock mounts. Now we have thought of making the kit with tabs so we can sell a bigger package but we will also have budget options within the kits like having the spindles mig or tig. To answer your question yes we want to make kits for trucks but also build trucks. Basically you would get a catalog with options and you can build a truck.
