Thread: '23 bucket with bump steer

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Don
if you were to use a pan hard or dead perch wouldn't that just try to pull the tierod ends out of the rack as the suspension moves up and down??

No, I meant to use those items with his existing cross steering setup, not the rack and pinion one.

Don

OK I just couldn't get that set up to work in my mind. thanks for setting me right on that. I have never had the opertunity to work on a front end like that so I didn't know.

I've never run a panhard bar and never had a bump steer problem because I always run a Ford pickup steering box with a traditional drag link that runs fore and aft. When I am steering, the forces are straight forward and backward, rather than side to side, as when using a Vega or similar cross steering box.

Everything I have ever heard is that it is manditory to run a panhard or dead perch with these cross steering boxes because of the way they shove the axle from side to side when turning the wheel.

I have also heard that radial tires accentuate the effect because the sidewalls are made to flex. Don't know if that is true, as I always run bias plys. This is one of those subjects no one seems to absolutely agree on, and there are 100 ways to go about it.

Don

Maybe I'll have to build one to play with.

Yeah, it would be a perfect stable mate for the other two you have.


What is it they say about "most toys" and "dying?"


Don

I realy don't want Or need MOST but I do have enough room for a few more projects in the shop. Besides I start getting S/S check here soon I figure I got to keep the econemy going.