My '86 Project

[1983stepside]

i cant wait to see how this rack goes in i really want to do this to my truck so ill be paying attention on this

[dv8customs]

I will take some good pictures for you then but it may be a couple weeks before I get to it. I am supposed to be helping a friend suicide the rear doors of his crew cab and we have to get it completed by Tex Mex.

[Captkaos]

In a nutshell you weld the mount tabs to the front of the crossmember to attach the rack where it needs to go and then hook up the tierod ends.  Then get some borgensen joints and route the shaft back to the column.

As dv8stated, serveral people have been doing this.  Turner Enterpises started it with rack setups on his sectioned crossmembers, I had plans to put them on one of my chopped crossmembers.  Jim Meyers has been doing it for years and he uses Tbird power racks, then Porterbuilt...

[dv8customs]

Yep, that really is all there is to it. Well that and weld in the frame notches for the rack to pass through. Only question I really have is where to set the rack, I assume it just needs to be set up so that everthing is level at ride height?

[Captkaos]

Get it at ride height and then make it as level as possible.  You would rather have the rack higher than lower.

[dv8customs]

That is what I thought. Thanks

[1983stepside]

well would putting a rack in a non z'd frame just lowered 3 inches in the front still work?

[dv8customs]

No reason it wouldn't work same as mine. You will still  have to notch the frame though if that is what you are wondering.

[scooterskoolkustoms]

I will take some good pictures for you then but it may be a couple weeks before I get to it. I am supposed to be helping a friend suicide the rear doors of his crew cab and we have to get it completed by Tex Mex.

   I want to suicide the back doors of my burb,and you do some great work would you take a lot of pics and post them.

[dv8customs]

His crew cab is a 2001

[2502]

I will take some good pictures for you then but it may be a couple weeks before I get to it. I am supposed to be helping a friend suicide the rear doors of his crew cab and we have to get it completed by Tex Mex.

   I want to suicide the back doors of my burb,and you do some great work would you take a lot of pics and post them.

i wanna see the burb, i'm looking at getting one tomorrow to beat around in til my neverending truck is finished.

[scooterskoolkustoms]

who's burb?

[2502]

who's burb?

yours, i seen the avatar. i'm hopefully going back down tomorrow to pick one up for myself

[the dan]

In a nutshell you weld the mount tabs to the front of the crossmember to attach the rack where it needs to go and then hook up the tierod ends.  Then get some borgensen joints and route the shaft back to the column.

As dv8stated, serveral people have been doing this.  Turner Enterpises started it with rack setups on his sectioned crossmembers, I had plans to put them on one of my chopped crossmembers.  Jim Meyers has been doing it for years and he uses Tbird power racks, then Porterbuilt...

I'd like to see some set ups, took a good look today and I definitely am going to have to do it, looks like I could do 3 joints depending on the angles. Is 3 going to cause play? And how long is the rack your using, from end to end then from end to steering shaft? I'll try an look some stuff up but really know absolutely nothing about r&p

thanks alot
Dan

[Captkaos]

3 should be fine, you would have to have that many for one of my chopped crossmembers.
This is a porterbuilt setup: