Been working on the rear springs and shocks. I will have a cross bar go between the frame rails behind the axle to hold the coilovers. I made some brackets to weld the bar to. There is a place to bolt to under the frame rail. To line up the bracket I taped on a piece of paper and pushed it onto the hole. Then when I slid the bracket into place, Then I transfered the hole ontothe bracket:
Then drill and bolt on (top center of image)
Next I need to be able to position the crossbar. I trash picked an old bed frame and chopped it up to get the steel angle for just such an occasion:
The bar is 1 5/8" OD. The frame rails are 5° off vertical. I didn't like the idea of having to cut the bar the exact right length and right angle to fit in and to have to make that cut before lining anything up. I bought a short length of tube which was 2.0 OD and .188 wall. which means the ID is 1 5/8. Since neither tube is perfect, it won't slide over... until I bore .010 inch off of the inside:
Fits perfect!
Next I angled the end 5°. I need to put the bar in the right place forward/ aft to allow the coilovers to install. I ran some string across the points where the coil overs will connect to the axle. Then I hung some string from the cross bar. The distance between the strings will be the thickness of the coil over mounts + any extra I want. I had to sawzall some room in the axle stands:
Here is one of the coil overs. I will choose springs once I have install angles.
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