2016 POTD Thread Archive

pfff mothaflippin cray-cray that dude done lost his mind

I was messing about with my compressor trying to stop it leaking, had the gauges/switch assemble loose, which put unwanted strain on the aluminium tube inside the brass fitting, breaking it, so I had to make up a little swage block to flare the tube to refit it.

pete

I decided to fabricate some longer swaybar links for my Jeep yesterday after the wife and I returned from breakfast. The links that came with my BDS suspension system are a bit short now that I have more droop out after installing my longer Fox 2.0 shocks. So much so, that when the front axle is fully drooped out the sway and links are perfectly straight. I am afraid that in the event of a full droop and a bump the swaybar may invert and then when the Jeep's weight comes back down on it, there could be damage.

At ride height I like to have the swaybar ends pretty much parallel with the chassis and the ground but mine are pointing downward slightly so I figured about 1.25" longer would do the trick.

I scrounged through my scrap pile and found some 1.25" DOM tubing for the link ends and some .625" 4130 chromoly tubing for the body of the links. I purchased some poly bushings that will work once I slightly bore the 1.25" DOM tubing out.


Here are the components machined. I also machined some internal spacers for the bushings out of 304 stainless steel. The two bottom ones will slightly stand the bushings out a bit from the axle for spacing as well as have a larger surface area for support.


Lower bushing spacer from stainless steel to provide the necessary spacing and support.


Links TIG welded.


Beadblasted and ready for paint.


Painted and hanging to dry.


Tonight I will press the poly bushings in and install the new swaybar links on my Jeep.

Mike.

I'm finally moving into the new century. I decided to buy a 33 piece set of ER 40 collets to use on my lathe. I also ordered a nut , but will make the chuck. I found a piece of 2 1/2" diameter X 3" long mystery metal in my scrap..... I mean inventory..... and bored and threaded it for the lathe spindle. Now I will finish it on the lathe for concentricity.
I remembered to put a spanner hole in it so I can get it back off without marking it up with a pipe wrench.
These little projects keep me busy while waiting for parts for the cutter grinder.

I finally decided to work on the set of Wright rollers I got from Keith Fenner back around Christmas. Some paint and assembly and I will be ready to roll some stock.

NCjeeper said:

I finally decided to work on the set of Wright rollers I got from Keith Fenner back around Christmas. Some paint and assembly and I will be ready to roll some stock.

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Looks interesting.......What is a Wright roller?????

NCjeeper said:

http://turnwrightmachineworks.com/the-wright-store/the-wright-roller-kits/

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I must be really stupid ......I looked at the site and still don't know what they are for ...... Checking for a bent axle ????????

Bummer on the liner leak. Been there, not much fun. I'm sure you'll have her back up and running before long. Mike

tomw said:

Mike,

The car has a fully pressurized oil systems, with 9 main babbitt bearings, each being fed from pump after filtering. The oil then goes though the main journal to the rod journals.

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Nice job on the links Mike. Welds look good. Mike

zmotorsports said:

I decided to fabricate some longer swaybar links for my Jeep yesterday after the wife and I returned from breakfast. The links that came with my BDS suspension system are a bit short now that I have more droop out after installing my longer Fox 2.0 shocks. So much so, that when the front axle is fully drooped out the sway and links are perfectly straight. I am afraid that in the event of a full droop and a bump the swaybar may invert and then when the Jeep's weight comes back down on it, there could be damage.

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