I got board

[earlybronco72]

No Patrick, I didn't repaint it, well actually I did, but that isn't what this is about. I finally decided to move the front axle forward after 6 years of thinking about it. I will be using a set of Duff arms, a f-150 box for the steering, and ballistic fab coil buckets. I will need to build the frame mounts for the arms since they were used and didn't come with the frame brackets. Anyone happen to have a good picture of the frame brackets? I'm about to head out and remove everything from the frame.

[PhantomEB]

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SWEEET! I was close to pullin a Marc last week, spray bomb in hand......

[Rockbronco67]

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Once you get this done you should try little sluice again and make sure I am there to watch again.

[earlybronco72]

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Once you get this done you should try little sluice again and make sure I am there to watch again.

I will be sure to let you know when I'm headed in. I just got back in from cutting off the shock mount, spring bucket, and track bar mount on the drivers side. I really need better lighting in my garage, and about 12 more feet of width.

[BRONKEN]

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O.T. must be slow this week.

[Efibroncoman]

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Those little Dual 4ft florescent lights are cheap everywhere and just use a 3 prong plug. I wired up 4 of them in my garage and they made a huge difference. But more space would always be nice too! Ballistic make some really nice brackets that would work great for radius arm mounts, I don't know if they would be the right size for the heims on your arms.

[CityHick]

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I too bought my Cage arms used. Cage sold me a pair of their frame brackets, I don't remember the price but it wasn't terrible. Would be easy enough to fabricate a set though. They are little more than some 3/16 or 1/4" tabs welded and bolted to each side of the frame, protruding down about 4" with a truss running between them that gets tacked to the frame as well. Think of a big "H" with the upper half cradling the frame and the lower half hanging down to support those big ol heims.

[earlybronco72]

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I too bought my Cage arms used. Cage sold me a pair of their frame brackets, I don't remember the price but it wasn't terrible. Would be easy enough to fabricate a set though. They are little more than some 3/16 or 1/4" tabs welded and bolted to each side of the frame, protruding down about 4" with a truss running between them that gets tacked to the frame as well. Think of a big "H" with the upper half cradling the frame and the lower half hanging down to support those big ol heims.

Is there some kind of spacer on the inside where the 1" bolt goes through?

Those little Dual 4ft florescent lights are cheap everywhere and just use a 3 prong plug. I wired up 4 of them in my garage and they made a huge difference. But more space would always be nice too! Ballistic make some really nice brackets that would work great for radius arm mounts, I don't know if they would be the right size for the heims on your arms.

I was thinking of putting some more of those lights up. I only have one in each part of my garage. Are you running the cage/duff arms? If so, maybe I could stop by some day and check out the mounts, and your fancy spring retaining straps that everyone wants to see.

O.T. must be slow this week.

It's always slow here. We need a big storm with some serious wind so I can make some extra cash. My tires are bald.
We are however replacing about 20,000ft of 20 year old 750 aluminum with 1000kcml copper in an express run out of one our subs. It's a bunch of crap we have had laying around in our yard for six years and they want to get rid of it. They have found that 1000kcml ocanite alum will pack more amps. I sure would rather be replacing some old nasty power poles though.

[BRONKEN]

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Maybe yoo can get the scrap wire That should be enough to put new axles under rig too.

[CityHick]

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There are spacers that center the heim between the brackets. Heims are supposed to be used with spacers anyway. I've got to have a picture around somewhere...

[TRAILBOUND]

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they are called miss alignment spacers, and are a must for hiems. Super cheap, just hit up ruff stuff, should be less than $5. And yours should be 1.25 hiems if im not mistaken.

[TRAILBOUND]

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also start rethinking front body mounts

[crawlin68]

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No Patrick, I didn't repaint it, well actually I did, but that isn't what this is about. I finally decided to move the front axle forward after 6 years of thinking about it. I will be using a set of Duff arms, a f-150 box for the steering, and ballistic fab coil buckets. I will need to build the frame mounts for the arms since they were used and didn't come with the frame brackets. Anyone happen to have a good picture of the frame brackets? I'm about to head out and remove everything from the frame.

LOL!! That IS exactly what I thought when I saw the title of your thread. How far forward are you going to go?

[earlybronco72]

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Maybe yoo can get the scrap wire That should be enough to put new axles under rig too.

5lbs a foot. This stuff sucks.

[earlybronco72]

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also start rethinking front body mounts

The front hangs off of 1" square already so the mounts are going way, already heard about that clearance issue, thanks for the name of the miss alignment spacers also.

LOL!! That IS exactly what I thought when I saw the title of your thread. How far forward are you going to go?

Just going out four inches. This way I will hopefully not have to get to far into the grill. We will see what has to be removed when I get it rolling later. This is my buddy from Idaho's bronco. He pushed his forward six, and has the same rear suspension I have. Hoping for a simular stance, but a little lower. We have the same size tires.