That’s the plan. I’ve got one in my pile of front axle parts. Whoever put this together notched the Currie truss and ground a good bit off of the cover to make it fit. Not having to run a big cover is kind of the point of the Rockjock.
Yeah, it’s big in a very different way than a normal 60 would have been.
I know you were looking for an outside the frame box. But if you could fit it inside the frame there’s a JK PSC big bore box on marketplace in my area for $750. I’ve thought about snagging it for this same purpose.
I doubt I can fit one inside the frame. That Rockjock housing takes up ALL the room over there. I’m picking up a couple Ford boxes this weekend to try though. $750 is a good price on that if it’s not trashed. They’re $12 or 1300 from PSC.
Yeah it is. If I had the spare $ I'd grab it just to put back for the future. I have the full PSC big bore hydro assist kit here waiting to put on mine.
Same here my size 15 doesn't play nice.with my down bar
Yeah, I’d gain a bit of up-travel clearance right there. The draglink TRE is every bit as close to the tie rod as it looks like in those pics and makes contact for sure. I’ve got another TJ pitman arm here to flip as an option.
That would have been a solid move if I didn’t already have every part for this axle except the inner shafts. I’d go that route for sure if I was starting from scratch.
And the ideas are actually someone with true knowledge has either done or tried. I cannot tell you how much junk info is out there on those two sites. Yes you get quick answers but 9 or 10 are dead wrong.
I'm sure I have notes on it somewhere, but my recollection is that the "Chevy 1 ton" or whatever TREs would only do about 15-18* of misalignment. A 3/4" heim with misalignment bushings was about 30*. If you buy the good teflon-lined (FMX??) joints, they last several years before they start getting loose. All I know for sure is that I drooped out the passenger tire and tried to hook up the drag link with TREs... it wasn't happening, couldn't get there from here.
Yeah, stock for stock, JK and TJ link mounts are in the same spots (close enough not to matter). Track bar is completely different, shocks and sway bar a little different, JK spring perches are taller, further apart, and about 3-4" further back than TJ (3/4" aft of axle center instead of ~3" forward of center, so JK axle moves forward if you keep TJ frame buckets as-is). I did like you're talking about and cut 3/4" out of the artec truss, moved the springs inboard to where they needed to be for the TJ.
The radiator is the problem. If you take the stock pitman and just put a heim on top, you end up within about 1/2" of the bottom hose and tank.
I put over 20k miles on all heim steering and never really had a problem. They wern't even baller heims, just 15$ Barnes heims. I always kept a right and left in the glove box but never needed them. I would have no fear of running heims on the street with steering.
My LJ currently has all heim steering on the aftermarket "high steer" on the D30. It has horrible geometry and drives like hot garbage due to bump steer, but the heims are solid.
I will be staying with heims once I get the tons swapped in.
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I ended up with a couple of the big Ford boxes from the 78/79 Broncos. I think that’s the route I’m gonna try to go. It looks like it’ll fit between my shock tower and the grille. I need to cut the existing pan hard bar bracket off to really tell if it’s gonna work though. It’s coming off to get reworked anyway so I just need to dedicate a couple of days and chop stuff up.Heck of a deal on what appears to be PSC Scout II box. Outside frame mount, forward swing. Parts might be hard to come by if you ever needed to rebuild it though.
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It’s a Harbor Freight Badlands jack. It’s awesome for uneven ground and it’s quiet when you drag it around too. It came with a bolt on extension too so it‘ll lift tall stuff. Solid purchase.
