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Here ya go,http://www.mooreparts.com/center-load-rack-pinion-heim/to go on this http://www.mooreparts.com/latest-rage-425153-center-load-rack-pinion-5-8-36-spline-dune-buggy/Sure you will have to redo rack mounts, but I think ya got that covered. May can find closer better price.
imo there shouldn't be any "pulling" one way or another from a 3/4" diff in shock location on a arms. i say this as if one heim may have been adjusted out farther than the other and your measuring to center pivot points of the center of the heim. adjustment at from and spindle side could add up to 3/4" pretty quick. imo, pulling would be for various reasons but one good reason would be if someone bent an a arm or spindle ( steering arm) or bent the rack mount or the end of the rack. you should check the caster on the spindles to see if they match. if one has more than the other then it will pull. just jack the front end off the ground and check alignment on the wheels too, a little toe in is ok but no toe out. i have actually bent the rack inside of a heavy duty end load rack and pinnion after hitting a wash out dead on sideways with my front wheel. it pulled to the right right after that and took me a while to find that issue.
just a quick story....lol.... i n built and installed on of my front end on a customers rail. he is now a good friend but at that time as i said i installed it and also aligned it. he got it home and drove it down the road then called and said it was squirrly and pulling. i said well no way its the front end and told him to check the alignment on the rear as i did not. i didn't touch the rear because it was a trailing arm rear end and i am not a fan of those for obvious reasons. i pre fer 5 or 6 link rear ends and now over built gawdy dual a-arm rear ends ! i am now a huge fan of the dual a-arm rear end btw! but he did check the rear and it was off a fair bit. when the rear ends aren't aligned then they will make the fronts feel like that too. just a thought to maybe re set the alignment front and rear to be sure before buying a bunch of parts if nothing is obvious that it's bent.
U need both pieces in links. Spread bar is 11” and boots to center load rack. U can’t get a heavy duty end load rack in 11” not that I’ve found.
Well coming from you I feel pretty good about myself measuring and checking most of what you said lol (yay im not as stupid as I thought lol). But I hear all what you saying bro and I measured from shock mount to end of the bar itself. I thought before measuring it to measure to the end of the bar (where the heim is mounted in) and not to the heim and there was the 3/4 inch difference. I think it does make a big difference just by the way I discovered it. I was sitting on a chair in front the buggy with my knees under the front using them to lift the front up and down watching the shocks expand and compress. I noticed the right shock was doing much more work than the left shock. The right side of the buggy was moving up and down while the left was not doing much at all. The right side compresses more and because it also expanded more, I would actually get the left wheel off the ground while the right was still grounded. This is because the shock mount on the right is closer to the inner end of the arm causing the arm to be pushed down more on expansion and up more on compression than on the left side. Now I could be talking shyt as I keep saying im not much of a fabricator or mechanic (just a little lol) And I hope I explained myself correct because I had issues trying to get a video of it onto this site. Have a think and let me know if there is any sense to what Im saying. All advice is appreciated.
just a quick story....lol.... i n built and installed on of my front end on a customers rail. he is now a good friend but at that time as i said i installed it and also aligned it. he got it home and drove it down the road then called and said it was squirrly and pulling. i said well no way its the front end and told him to check the alignment on the rear as i did not. i didn't touch the rear because it was a trailing arm rear end and i am not a fan of those for obvious reasons. i pre fer 5 or 6 link rear ends and now over built gawdy dual a-arm rear ends ! i am now a huge fan of the dual a-arm rear end btw! but he did check the rear and it was off a fair bit. when the rear ends aren't aligned then they will make the fronts feel like that too. just a thought to maybe re set the alignment front and rear to be sure before buying a bunch of parts if nothing obvious that it's bent.
Wellllll,it's about time!!!!!!!
The rack that is in there is one of these (or it was when it left here). I don't know which one but there's very little difference.http://www.mooreparts.com/latest-rage-425145-end-load-11-rack-pinion-5-8-36-spline-vw-sand-rail-buggy/http://www.mooreparts.com/latest-rage-425140-end-load-11-rack-pinion-5-8-36-spline-vw-sand-rail-buggy/The rod ends that come with the rack are removed (they're super wimpy) and replaced with these. The threads are cut off and then the clevis is drilled and counter-bored for a SHCS (Socket Head Cap Screw) bolt. Look at the one in the buggy and you'll understand.http://www.mooreparts.com/latest-rage-425152cv-replacement-clevis-end-for-end-load-rack-pinion/While the whole set-up isn't insanely bulletproof it worked for MANY years out here. There really aren't a whole lot of options in the size/space you have, trust me I looked.Sorry for taking so long. Work's been a Bitch lately.
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