1965 falcon

[Bryce]

Its like driving a power steering car with the engine off. HAHA. I should be at delmar with the car.

At least not too many other people can drive my car, its also a great forearm workout!

[Bryce]

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Some PHR love

[camcojb]

Nice!!!!!!

[waynieZ]

Congrats!

[tones2SS]

Congrats!

[FETorino]

Very cool. Keep sorting out that suspension recipe so I can copy it for my wagon

[Bryce]

Finalized the steering today.

I drilled out the center link with a 12.5mm cobalt drill bit. That opened up the tapered hole to .492". A 1/2" shoulder bolt measures .496". So I honed the hole with a drum sander to .495 and tapped teh shoulder bolts in. That produced a really nice tight fit.




I painted the center link with my usual hammertone gold. It matches gold irridate and is the toughest spray paint I have seen out of a can.

Here is the stack up of washer on the new inner tierod. I can now adjust my ackerman. I still need to develope a good way to measure it. SO I matched stock.


I used the regular chromoly rod ends on the inner pivot, 5/8-18 thread and 1/2" hole in the ball.

Here is a picture of the outer tie rod spacers. I added washers to adjust bumpsteer if needed in the future.

The larger OD stainless washers are being used as a safety washer incase I ever have a rod end failure.
The outer tie rod uses a high misalignment chromoly rod end with 60 degrees of articulation. It has 5/8-18 thread with a 1/2 hole in the ball.

And finally a installed view at full droop:



Time for a test drive!

[coolwelder62]

Very nice.I love the self built stuff you come up with.

[Bryce]

I guess I am not racing today. The alternator died last night. I guess that is better than at the autocross.

[DTM Racing]

I know you are really good at the math with this kind of stuff, but isn't that a lot of torque that can be applied to the steering arm at the spindle? Seems like a lot of stuff without support.