Time for Tons

[JEEPWERX]

 Very Nice

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[Harrison]

Thanks guys! Debating painting the rings the same orange as my current ones or having my buddy powder coat them. Or leave them shiny!

Can't wait to have shiny wheels on my wrinkled Jeep.

[Harrison]

Been extremely happy with my hydraulic steering with exception of the cover loosening enough to cause a drip after a day of wheeling.

Two solutions I have come up with:

Ram guard like below but attaches to the diff cover with some kind of flange/bracket welded to the cover that allows the cover to still be removed. Hopefully stiffens everything enough to not loosen. Concerned about building something that bolts together in two different planes, welding distortion may cause issues?



Buy something like shown below. Concern being whether or not four 1/2" bolts can provide enough additional clamping force over the countersunk bolts to keep things in place. I think so...? Would still build a simple ram guard separate from cover.

[mr.mindless]

How about a hoop in front of the cover that bolts or welds to yiur mount and bolts to tabs on each tube to help take the left-right force?


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[Harrison]

So the hoop/ram guard and cover would be one whole assy either bolted or welded together, then the hoop attaches to the axle tubes on either side? That sounds decent as well if I am understanding correctly.

Something like this would probably work well too, though I would probably keep it to one flange facing toward the middle.

[mr.mindless]

Thats a monstrous version of what I had in mind


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[Harrison]

After actually taking some measurements I realized I needed about 7-8" to stick out past the tie rod. Found some scrap pieces of tube and came up with this.

Bracing to come. Thinking two 5/8" bolts on the flange. Forgive the fluxcore tacks, big boy extension cord is at Dan's house...

[mr.mindless]

Seems pretty reasonable. I wonder though, thinking about where your ram mounts, if the twisting force that will result might still be enough to want to tweak the cover?

I think I would also put the forward side of that at the tube flush and trim while welding, and have a washer's worth of space against the axle tube, so that it is trying to smoosh the cover on harder rather than having any chance of the brace trying to pull the cover off.

[M4wdFab]

im confused. 

[Harrison]

im confused.

Where the c clamp is there are two pieces of steel that will be a bolted flange. The diff cover side will become one welded assembly so the cover can still be removed

[Harrison]

Seems pretty reasonable. I wonder though, thinking about where your ram mounts, if the twisting force that will result might still be enough to want to tweak the cover?

I think I would also put the forward side of that at the tube flush and trim while welding, and have a washer's worth of space against the axle tube, so that it is trying to smoosh the cover on harder rather than having any chance of the brace trying to pull the cover off.

I do think the twisting is part of the problem, which is why I think the flanges need to be touching with a good amount of preload on them.

I will look at possibly adding a second bolted connection closer to the ram mount, but I think a tightly bolted flange in another plane will be a huge improvement over just 10-12 countersunk bolts.

[Harrison]

Ready for welding. Resealed cover and torqued bolts and re-tacked bent cover tube. Want everything to be in its happy place when it gets welded. Plan is to weld it up just like it is here, paint it, put it back in, and hope it doesn't have to come off for a long time...

[Harrison]

Done

[M4wdFab]

i hate those pins with a passion

[Harrison]

Creepies on wheels are for sale if anyone here is interested