[MikeT]

Right now I am deep into my crossover steering project. I have everthing in place to take a look at clearance issues. From what I see I may have trim the engine crossmember a tad but my biggest concern is the clearance between the draglink end and the driver side spring. It looks to have a bout 2.5" of space there, will this be enough for full compesion of the spring? I have only a 4" lift maybe 5" with the front extended shackels.

 

[Sam Simpson]

Need to see some pics. I have crossover steering with the high steer steering arms on both knuckles (although I am no longer using the high steer). I have 2" spacer blocks under my arms to help clear the 6" skyjacker springs I have. The 2" spacers were needed for the high steer (tie rod above the spring) but I do not believe I needed the blocks with just the standard crossover steering.

 

[RAMMAN4]

I'm running crossover steering on my 84 RC with 4 inch springs in the front and I have plenty of clearance. What truck is this going on? Do your front springs still have good arch in them? Put your steering arm on the passenger side knuckle and see if there is enough clearance between the top of the arm and the leaf springs. If it's pretty close you will wanna use a spacer to raise the arm up some.

 

[mrpeal]

crossover should work just fine with 4 inches of lift, just make sure your using a drop pitman arm on the gearbox, spacer on the pass side, it looks closer than it is. as for full droop when the suspension is at full droop say for instance 6 inchs drop,the crossover bar wont drop but 3 inches due to the dynamics of the pitman arm to steering arm axis, they wont travel at the same rate, you should be good either way

jamie

 

[kyot]

I'm running mine with no spacer and with the dropp arm off of the steering box, no trimming either.

 

[DHONDAGOD]

COULD SOME OF YOU GUYS POST SOME PICS OF THIS STUFF WHEN YOU GET A CHANCE? A PIC IS WORTH A 1000 WORDS SOMETIMES.....IT WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED....THANKS

 

[RAMMAN4]

Try looking in the How To section. There are 2 in there already with pretty good pics.

 

[Guest]

COULD SOME OF YOU GUYS POST SOME PICS OF THIS STUFF WHEN YOU GET A CHANCE? A PIC IS WORTH A 1000 WORDS SOMETIMES.....IT WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED....THANKS

Here is the passenger side of my set up. I am using a 1" block

another shot of the passenger side

Here is another pic of the overal set up

Hope they help.
Greg

 

[MikeT]

My concern is in the last pic gmule posted, the clearance between the pitman arm end and the driver side spring. I have even less space than gmule has because I am running a tie rod end. Not sure on full stuff of the wheel weather it will make contact. Also in that pic you can see the draglink runs through the engine cross member, with pre '76 trucks this cross member is half as wide as the later model ones and its causing interference I am going to have to trim the cross member sum but don't want to weaken it. I'll try and post some pictures soon

 

[Guest]

On my crossmember I took a about a 2" wide strip out of the middle so that my draglink wouldn't rub on the cross member during full compression with the passenger side tire. I have not had any problems with cracks or anything regarding the cross member with the chunk out of it. There is about 1" of clearence between the pitman arm and leaf spring on full compression.

 

[RAMMAN4]

I know what you mean about that narrow crossmember on the 70s trucks. I just went ahead and got the crossmember from my 86 parts truck and I'm gonna swap that in since it's wider.

 

[MikeT]

Took some pictures of this install so far. Still need a good steering box, the one I pulled from the junkyard is not working.

Go here for pic:
http://home.pacbell.net/i8cakes/page20.html