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The bigger racks are just not going to work. Period. There simply isn't room. When i built the two seater I tried knowing that the small rack linked above was marginal. There needs to be a medium sized rack. They just don't exist. If you go any bigger the tie rod fouling issue will get worse as a result the location of the tie rods moving forward. The location of the tie rods is already a design issue with the Edge design that Tony refuses to address. You cannot go wider either or you will induce bumpsteer. Just buy one of the small racks linked above and modify it to match what's in there. It'll last a long time. When I built the two seater I bought two racks and modified both so I would have a spare. The spare has never been out of the trailer.
I have a great idea and I think you gonna love it how about you selling that ready to go rack you have sitting in storage PLEASE lol that would be great. If you cant I understand. Let me ask this before I buy the same rack and have the same problem. Should a new rack like that one have 1/2" play left to right and also should it rock front to back on the heim ends?
well all in all good to hear. lance......does doug have one of these rack and pinions he would sell? sounds like he would just like a new one to install and save the old for a spare,
QuoteI have a great idea and I think you gonna love it how about you selling that ready to go rack you have sitting in storage PLEASE lol that would be great. If you cant I understand. Let me ask this before I buy the same rack and have the same problem. Should a new rack like that one have 1/2" play left to right and also should it rock front to back on the heim ends?The rack I have will not work for you. The ends are at different angles.Rocking back and forth front to back sounds like the mount is just loose. You really need to take it off and see what's wrong with it. I can't speculate from here what might be wrong.Yes it will have some side to side play in the steering wheel. There's way to many joints between the steering wheel and the tires and every joint is cumulative and adds to the slop. It'll never be like automotive rack and pinion steering. Just ain't gonna happen.
When you change out the heims,be sure to very precisely measure center to center distance to keep the arms as close as possible to how Lance set it up originally. Hopefully,last owner did not screw with that before you got it.
Quote from: fabr on November 26, 2017, 12:02:59 AMWhen you change out the heims,be sure to very precisely measure center to center distance to keep the arms as close as possible to how Lance set it up originally. Hopefully,last owner did not screw with that before you got it.I am with you on that bro. I don't know if it is or not aligned (probably is not as its pulling so hard to the right) and would have to get the alignment spcs from lance to take to the alignment shop. Im counting different numbers on the threads of all front end heims left and right. Maybe that's normal but i would need you guys to tell me so. Man I don't even know if it can go on an alignment machine or if its a situation where I have to count the threads on the heims.