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Originally Posted by redx08
Fordtechguru off of pirate will do it. He machined, tapped, and made the arm for a good price with quick turn around.
Buddy of mine who owns a 4x4 shop said he can weld the arms straight to the knuckles. Clean, preheat and weld. He was doing this before arms or kits were ever made. I may go this route.
If not I have to buy new knuckles and arms$$$. The only advantage as that it will look better cosmetically.
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I had high steer arms welded to the knuckles on a my old jeep people told me it was stupid and dangerous I have 39s on it and beat it to hell never broke a weld on the arm.
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Seriously gives some motivation. Awesome build.
If you don't run any of the speed sensors or abs sensors what would happen? Would you only have the ESP/bas light on or are there more issues?
If you don't run any of the speed sensors or abs sensors what would happen? Would you only have the ESP/bas light on or are there more issues?
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why would you not want to run the speed sensors??? it's probably the easiest (an least expensive) step in putting a set of junk yard axles under your jk, and will make it much safer to drive on the highway.
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Originally Posted by Curiosity
why would you not want to run the speed sensors??? it's probably the easiest (an least expensive) step in putting a set of junk yard axles under your jk, and will make it much safer to drive on the highway.
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I'm in the same boat as you.. mine is paid off in 6 months. I've already run down the d60 front end from a 01 f350 w/ disc brakes. Not sure if i'll do the rear end at the same time or not.... depends on whether or not i can find a good 14 bolt in a reasonable amount of time.
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Disc Brake rear 14 bolt axles have an ebrake. Just have to mate the two cables together. I'll let you know how I do it when I get mine in. I'm having bad thoughts with my rear 14 bolt build. I'm still wanting the rear 14 with D-60 outters from a 550 like the front one w/ full hydro rear steer. If I go this set-up, I can ditch the modified tone rings for stock replacement units for a Ford since all 4 corners would have the same unit bearings and tone rings would match. For an e-brake, going this route would mean setting up a hand brake off of the rear drive shaft like my old CJ. I would go for a bigger unit like one from a med duty box truck.