Suspension Lift Troubles
Saturday, October 1st, 2005
The front propshaft is now too short to reach the diff without being at fulll stretch at rest - any articulation will pop it apart. I’ll need a longer prop with a 4″ slip joint.
Another probelm that has had its solution decided on is the rear prop shaft. Due to the chassis having 1-ton extended spring hangers and shackles, combined with HD parabolics, the suspension is so tall thet the rear prop binds on the lower edge of the hole in the x-member behnd the gearbox. The options were to:
a) lower the suspension (severely dislike that option);
b) fit check straps under tension to draw the chassis down 1/2″ (not a good idea either);
c) cut away the part of the chassis that the prop is fouling (workable, but not ideal on a brand new galv chassis), or;
d) get a custom prop with a slim section where it passes through the rear of the x-member (similar diameter to the male section of the expansion joint).
Obviously, “d” is the way to go, especially as I need to get the front propshaft extended by approx 1.5″ (due to the same suspension reasons). There is a propshaft specialist in St Neots (Bailey Morris), not far from me, so that is the planned course of action (the Scorpion and Gon2Far props are good but a bit dear).
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