TucsonJim Cate&Rob
Jim and Rob - this topic should bring back memories. Jim I ran across your 2018 thread over on the other place along with a few others on this topic. Trying to think ahead here. Rob - did you ever shim your springs in the hangers as you were thinking of doing, and if you did how did it go? Jim did you happen to check the shoulder length on the wet bolts your using?
Why am I asking? I was double checking measurements off all my components, The EZ-Flex and my wet bolts supplied with my components like the X=Factor cross brace.
"
First my hangers measure 2 3/8 fat outside to outside. By fat I may have an additional 1/16 but that could be paint or my eyeballs. Inside is 1 7/8" fat. Again a 1/16, so 1/16 shy of 2 " However at my existing wet bolts the hanger is compressed to 1 3/4 inside, just as yours were Jim. Some do have a gap as posted with my axle pictures. So the stock wet bolts may have been shorter. Ill know when I take them out.
The EZ-Flex. Center bushing location measures just shy (1/16") of 2" for the inside steel bushing, so it will be an exact fit inside the hanger. Casting is 1.75". this means the hanger itself can float to the side on the center steel bushing. I have an email into Dexter to see if this should be shimmed to prevent side to side float. The wet bolt supplied by Mooryde to hold the assembly in place and the cross member plate is a fat 2 3/4" inside bolt face to thread face. IE distance between bolt face on outside of hanger to nut face inside the cross tube. The cross plate face is 3/8" When installed the Hanger should not be compressed much by the bolt leaving space for the bushing to float on the wet bolt.
So to recap 2 3/8" fat hanger OD thickness plus 3/8" cross tube plate gives a fat 2 3/4", so the hanger should not be compressed at all with the Morryde wet bolts supplied with the X-Factor cross member kit This means I have a shy 1/4" play between the springs and the inside face of the hangers now. Springs measure exactly 1.75 wide. I have shims the should work with this, but they are galvanized. I am sure I can find SS locally too. Or use rubber washers to fill this gap.
So I guess what I am asking is should I get some thin SS shims and make the fitment tighter, but not so tight that when torqued properly there is resistance in movement.
Thanks for your thoughts on this.
Keith
Jim and Rob - this topic should bring back memories. Jim I ran across your 2018 thread over on the other place along with a few others on this topic. Trying to think ahead here. Rob - did you ever shim your springs in the hangers as you were thinking of doing, and if you did how did it go? Jim did you happen to check the shoulder length on the wet bolts your using?
Why am I asking? I was double checking measurements off all my components, The EZ-Flex and my wet bolts supplied with my components like the X=Factor cross brace.
"
First my hangers measure 2 3/8 fat outside to outside. By fat I may have an additional 1/16 but that could be paint or my eyeballs. Inside is 1 7/8" fat. Again a 1/16, so 1/16 shy of 2 " However at my existing wet bolts the hanger is compressed to 1 3/4 inside, just as yours were Jim. Some do have a gap as posted with my axle pictures. So the stock wet bolts may have been shorter. Ill know when I take them out.
The EZ-Flex. Center bushing location measures just shy (1/16") of 2" for the inside steel bushing, so it will be an exact fit inside the hanger. Casting is 1.75". this means the hanger itself can float to the side on the center steel bushing. I have an email into Dexter to see if this should be shimmed to prevent side to side float. The wet bolt supplied by Mooryde to hold the assembly in place and the cross member plate is a fat 2 3/4" inside bolt face to thread face. IE distance between bolt face on outside of hanger to nut face inside the cross tube. The cross plate face is 3/8" When installed the Hanger should not be compressed much by the bolt leaving space for the bushing to float on the wet bolt.
So to recap 2 3/8" fat hanger OD thickness plus 3/8" cross tube plate gives a fat 2 3/4", so the hanger should not be compressed at all with the Morryde wet bolts supplied with the X-Factor cross member kit This means I have a shy 1/4" play between the springs and the inside face of the hangers now. Springs measure exactly 1.75 wide. I have shims the should work with this, but they are galvanized. I am sure I can find SS locally too. Or use rubber washers to fill this gap.
So I guess what I am asking is should I get some thin SS shims and make the fitment tighter, but not so tight that when torqued properly there is resistance in movement.
Thanks for your thoughts on this.
Keith
Comment