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Gonna offer a kit?
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It’s not looking like I’ll be able to make this a easy swap. If i did, it probably wouldn’t work unless you have my long travel kit. It will occupy the space of the oem shackle hanger.
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You have the best toys!
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I figured those engineers from Ford ste that idea from you and put it on the new Bronco! LMAO
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Ha. No that’s a pretty standard thing to have in a rock crawler. Normally you would have a atlas or some type of rear drive line disconnect to drag both rear wheels and burn turn with fwd only. I haven’t figured that out (yet) with the roxor. So one wheel lock at a time for now after hitting the switch to open the rear locker.
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It’s not looking like I’ll be able to make this a easy swap. If i did, it probably wouldn’t work unless you have my long travel kit. It will occupy the space of the oem shackle hanger.
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Apparently Im not well versed in the type of witchcraft Mahindra uses to install these damn bushings.
I’m sure my neighbors loved the relentless air chiseling this morning.
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Planned obsolescence my friend
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Today I was able to got my proof of concept done to where I’m confident my plans will work.
With the box placed where I wanted it I realized that there may be a fairly simple way to mount this box to the frame.
The unused shackle mounts that I decided not to cut off while I was cleaning up the frame lined up pretty close to where I ultimately wanted to be.
I used the plasma table to make centering spacers, ran a bolt through the center and into the lower mount of the box. It worked perfect. The box clears everything and there is plenty of room to pass a shaft through the window in the roxor front crossmember. It is tucked up nice and high, out of harms way. I will still skid plate it.
I am now going to work on making a permanent relocation solution using the shackle center as my point of reference. Once all mock up is done I’ll switch out this old box for the new PSC hydro assist box.
Man my roxor looks like a mess in these photos. I’m going to give it a good power wash and repaint before Moab in a 2 months.
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With the box placed where I wanted it I realized that there may be a fairly simple way to mount this box to the frame.
The unused shackle mounts that I decided not to cut off while I was cleaning up the frame lined up pretty close to where I ultimately wanted to be.
I used the plasma table to make centering spacers, ran a bolt through the center and into the lower mount of the box. It worked perfect. The box clears everything and there is plenty of room to pass a shaft through the window in the roxor front crossmember. It is tucked up nice and high, out of harms way. I will still skid plate it.
I am now going to work on making a permanent relocation solution using the shackle center as my point of reference. Once all mock up is done I’ll switch out this old box for the new PSC hydro assist box.
Man my roxor looks like a mess in these photos. I’m going to give it a good power wash and repaint before Moab in a 2 months.
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Looks like you have a good plan,
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That almost looks simple now! Just kidding love your confidence and the improvements your making
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Blew up my little commuter car. No time to waste with the alternative being a 10mpg gas 2500 truck… slapped a junkyard motor in it and we are back on the road. 40mpg when gas is $4.40 a gallon is nice.
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Made a template of the 2 patterns that I need to combine. Transferred that onto a 1/4 inch piece of plate. It hand cut it to fit inside the frame but the final product will be produced on my plasma table. I should be able to run this prototype for a while before I finalize a kit if I decide to go that way.
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You need to make this an off-road machine
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Fun little lathe project tonight. Turning a roxor leaf spring bolt into a steering shaft adapter. One down one to go.
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slippy fit to make it work!!
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Documenting part numbers In case anyone needs this in the future.
Borgeson 114931 Steering U-Joint, Stainless Steel, 3/4DD X 3/4-30
And
Borgeson 450036 Steering Shaft; Telescopic; Steel; 36in. Extended Length
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Borgeson 114931 Steering U-Joint, Stainless Steel, 3/4DD X 3/4-30
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Borgeson 450036 Steering Shaft; Telescopic; Steel; 36in. Extended Length
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This project is a pain in the a$$!
Made the final plate. Had to adjust from the mock up because the XD PSC box was a little bigger and contacted the frame. The center hole rom the unused stock shackle hanger no longer worked. I got a chunk of aluminum to put on the lathe and machine out a eccentric press in insert to lower the box. This also was used to position the box so that the pressure and return lines had space to connect behind the winch plate.
The box now lined up perfectly with the pass through for the steering shaft.
I drenched everything in lock tight so we won’t have any bolts backing back out. There won’t be an easy way of tightening things up after all the lines are installed.
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Made the final plate. Had to adjust from the mock up because the XD PSC box was a little bigger and contacted the frame. The center hole rom the unused stock shackle hanger no longer worked. I got a chunk of aluminum to put on the lathe and machine out a eccentric press in insert to lower the box. This also was used to position the box so that the pressure and return lines had space to connect behind the winch plate.
The box now lined up perfectly with the pass through for the steering shaft.
I drenched everything in lock tight so we won’t have any bolts backing back out. There won’t be an easy way of tightening things up after all the lines are installed.
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I was getting only 1 turn lock to lock out of the steering wheel. This would make fore some very twitchy steering at speed. I also compressed the suspension to see how close the pitman arm would be to the tie rod ad full compression as the wheel base grew. It was too close for comfort. Leaf springs only keep the axle in a general area. They tend to do funky things sometimes and I definitely don’t want linkage contact or a broken sector shaft.
I figure I could kill 2 birds with one stone. I did the overwhelmingly complex math to figure out that the pitman arm could be shortened a little over an inch to correct the arm throw. I now get exactly 1.5 turns in each direction and the added inch or so of clearance on the linkage is a welcome bonus.
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I figure I could kill 2 birds with one stone. I did the overwhelmingly complex math to figure out that the pitman arm could be shortened a little over an inch to correct the arm throw. I now get exactly 1.5 turns in each direction and the added inch or so of clearance on the linkage is a welcome bonus.
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