: Ram-Assist on Ford Coil Suspension


Cherokee Paul
03-15-2002, 09:00 PM
Anyone install a ram using the Stock Ford Coil Sprung suspension? Looking up under mine, and trying to find a place for the ram to sit.. the track bar eliminates the place most people would normally mount theirs.

Here's something off the wall... I maybe an idiot.. but could I mount the ram on the track bar, connecting to the drag link?

Other then that.. it's all pretty tight up there.

Cherokee Paul
03-16-2002, 06:09 AM
BTT,
Anyone have any suggestions?

flmanyj
03-16-2002, 06:15 AM
put it were your steering stableazer is

Cherokee Paul
03-16-2002, 06:27 AM
That could work, but it would connect to the drag-link instead of the tie-rod.. Was still waiting to hear the general consensus of connecting it to the drag-link vs. the tie-rod.

Cherokee Paul
03-16-2002, 04:05 PM
Well, after looking at it further.. I've decided that the track-bar will have to be relocated..
Thinking of fabbing a mount on the top of the axle that will relocate the trackbar mount to the top of the axle housing. Will 5/16th or 3/8th plate be thick enough for this? I don't forsee a lot of fore/aft movement (bending) stress on it, just left and right.. so a large surface area onto the axle housing will be good right?

TheLakeRat
03-16-2002, 08:45 PM
That's what you will have to do, Just make a bracket to move it up 4 to 6 " and remount it.