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Moved my axle back an inch
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Nice! I plan to do this when I install the WH's 2.5" lift. Tire to flair placement looks much better.
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Way easier than I thought.
Even drilling those crazy thick WH top plates wasn't too bad.
I bought two new DeWalt bits, maybe that helped.
A 5/8" for the axle perch. WH leaf packs have a really big centering pin head.
A 3/4" for the top plate.
Even drilling those crazy thick WH top plates wasn't too bad.
I bought two new DeWalt bits, maybe that helped.
A 5/8" for the axle perch. WH leaf packs have a really big centering pin head.
A 3/4" for the top plate.
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Looks good. Axle looks like it belongs there. May have to do that too... sometime in the future... (to do list just seems to get longer...)
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Did you use a drill press for the u-bolts plates or just a hand drill for both plates and perches?
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Glad it wasn't too much of a PITA for ya
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Regarding ride quality....its funny,... I actually think it rides a little better....silly I know...the front of the leaf spring "is" an inch longer....lol...
It changed my pinion vibration a smidge, as in lessened it, it was not much pinion vibration to start with, but I feel it, and moving the axle back some how improved it.
Drilling it was soooo much easier than I thought. I have a drill press, but when the pilot holes were so easy, I just continued to use my battery drill the whole way through.
I drilled small 3/16" pilot holes then moved up from there I think to 5/8" & 3/4". Wild Horses plates and pins are really big.
I just put 1490 miles on it going to Super Cel. Worked beautifully. My driveshaft was long enough, as it seems to stick out of the slip "maybe" a half inch or less further.
So it worked out great for me. I say try it. It is real easy to go back to stock.
It changed my pinion vibration a smidge, as in lessened it, it was not much pinion vibration to start with, but I feel it, and moving the axle back some how improved it.
Drilling it was soooo much easier than I thought. I have a drill press, but when the pilot holes were so easy, I just continued to use my battery drill the whole way through.
I drilled small 3/16" pilot holes then moved up from there I think to 5/8" & 3/4". Wild Horses plates and pins are really big.
I just put 1490 miles on it going to Super Cel. Worked beautifully. My driveshaft was long enough, as it seems to stick out of the slip "maybe" a half inch or less further.
So it worked out great for me. I say try it. It is real easy to go back to stock.
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Oh....and sorry it took me so long to respond.
Worked uber late.
Worked uber late.
I'll second that adding an inch to the wheelbase improves the ride.
Third thAt but i moved mime 1.5""
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Uh, me too! I had not thought about that, and I just ordered one!
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The Sherman tank will have more clearance than the NWMP tank, because of the uni-strut mounting system. At least 3/4" more.
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