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Can someone give me the rundown on steering? (17th Oct 09 at 10:32pm UTC)
I want to know what is an inverted Y setup vs a T setup and so on. I'll do a search but just some input or pics would be nice. Thanks.
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Re: Can someone give me the rundown on steering? (17th Oct 09 at 10:40pm UTC)
I believe this is accurate: An inverted Y is where the steering systems draglink connects to the passenger side steering knuckle. Somewhere in the middle of that draglink the tie rod mounts to the driver side steering knuckle. An standard T is where the draglink goes from the pitman are to the passenger steering knuckle and a tie rod connects from the passenger steering knuckle to the drive side steering knuckle.
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Re: Can someone give me the rundown on steering? (17th Oct 09 at 11:31pm UTC)
I think you may be right as well, Thanks lance! Any other input is welcome. (I'm in the process of redoing my steering on the Heep)
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Re: Can someone give me the rundown on steering? (17th Oct 09 at 11:55pm UTC)
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Re: Can someone give me the rundown on steering? (18th Oct 09 at 12:12am UTC)
I knew someone would say that! LOL Full hydro isn't an option for my DD.
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Re: Can someone give me the rundown on steering? (18th Oct 09 at 1:58am UTC)
T Like Toyota high steer setup, drag link comes over to the steering knuckle Y What you have already on the Heep
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Re: Can someone give me the rundown on steering? (18th Oct 09 at 4:58am UTC)
The standard T is much better than the inverted Y. With high steer, the standard T is even better. What are you running? Go with some high steer arms and do the standard T steering setup. Les binding and if you hit something, your whole steering will not be screwed up.
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Re: Can someone give me the rundown on steering? (18th Oct 09 at 4:32pm UTC)
we'll I'm not going to dump a buch of money into my Rubicon axle but I dont mind drilling and reaming the knuckles to accept the chevy rod ends. When the time came to sell the axles I would include the steering for less of a headache to the buyer. I'm trying to find pics of the diffrent setups to make sure I understans the diffrence.
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Re: Can someone give me the rundown on steering? (18th Oct 09 at 4:37pm UTC)
This is the setup I'm thinking of trying.... http://www.4x4preservation.com/forums/showthread.php?t=479 Any input would be nice, is this still considered a inverted Y considering the tierod runs knuckle to knuckle and the draglink off of the tierrod?
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Re: Can someone give me the rundown on steering? (18th Oct 09 at 5:25pm UTC)
I think that is the standard T. The tie rod connects to the knuckle and the draglink connects to the tie rod that connects to the knuckle. I ran that set up on my EB for the time I had it. You would have to add a high steer arm to get your draglink to tie into directly to the knuckle. But you can see that the original is an inverted Y.
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