Sac '68 sport
Bronco Guru
The bronco not the ol'lady...
Background:
It has a strange Power steering set up that a PO put in out of an old Mercury car. It puts the pitman at a bit of a strange angle, ie the shaft is cocked toward the back a little so they could get the steering shaft to clear the frame. I would have changed it but they cut into the frame and boxed it in so now that it's all restored it would not be worth trying to change.
I previously had an old school stiff as a board, JD dual shock, stock height set up. No issues at all other than it road like crap.
When I did my recent resto I ditched the JD shocks and went with 2.5 inch coils I picked up 2nd hand off a guy from the NorCal Broncos page (I think they are from Jeff's as they are not variable rate, but they are fairly soft and ride nice) and Rancho RS9000's. I used the same C bushings that came with the old Duff kit and added a WH extended track bar. I still need to get an indexed drop pitman arm as the one I have now I can turn tighter going left than right. However because of the way the PS box is cocked back I'm not going to get much drop out of it over what I have on there now.
With the new springs it rides softer, but it's all over the place now. Every bump in the road is like a roller coaster. You really got to drive it to keep it in it's lane.
Would 7deg. bushings help? Any other suggestions?
Background:
It has a strange Power steering set up that a PO put in out of an old Mercury car. It puts the pitman at a bit of a strange angle, ie the shaft is cocked toward the back a little so they could get the steering shaft to clear the frame. I would have changed it but they cut into the frame and boxed it in so now that it's all restored it would not be worth trying to change.
I previously had an old school stiff as a board, JD dual shock, stock height set up. No issues at all other than it road like crap.
When I did my recent resto I ditched the JD shocks and went with 2.5 inch coils I picked up 2nd hand off a guy from the NorCal Broncos page (I think they are from Jeff's as they are not variable rate, but they are fairly soft and ride nice) and Rancho RS9000's. I used the same C bushings that came with the old Duff kit and added a WH extended track bar. I still need to get an indexed drop pitman arm as the one I have now I can turn tighter going left than right. However because of the way the PS box is cocked back I'm not going to get much drop out of it over what I have on there now.
With the new springs it rides softer, but it's all over the place now. Every bump in the road is like a roller coaster. You really got to drive it to keep it in it's lane.
Would 7deg. bushings help? Any other suggestions?