Well I'm to the point of adding hydro assist to my scout but I wondered how much road feel I'd lose and if anyone was using this on a daily driver. My death wobble appears every now and then. I know its my castor as it is about 10 or 11 degrees. I'm going to get some castor shims but I figured before I move up to 39.5's I'd better get some help for my power steering. It steers fine now but backing up with my trailer on it doesn't squeel but just doesn't have the guts to turn the wheel if I'm not rolling. Anyway advice. Also I ordered some cutout flares for the rear but was wondering what was a good flare to run up front. I'm running flares off a 95 chevy in the rear but they haven't showed up yet.

It will get easier to steer if you make the castor more like 5 degrees. Change the castor first before moving on to steering upgrades. Your death wobble will probably go away as well. Not sure what to run for a cut out fender flare.
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I ran it for a while in my truck, I did end up removing it cause it wandered a bit but it was managable. As soon as I removed it I grenaded a steering box in the box, so I dunno which is best..

Well I'm to the point of adding hydro assist to my scout but I wondered how much road feel I'd lose and if anyone was using this on a daily driver.

In my experience, you lose almost all the "road feel". The return-to-center tendency provided by having a decent caster angle is more or less nullified by the damping introduced by the hydraulic ram. <shrug> You can live with it, but it takes some getting used to for sure.

I know its my castor as it is about 10 or 11 degrees.

Castor is a type of oil, and if it is only 10 or 11 degrees then that is way too cold, it will be too thick and it won't really work very well.:evil: :flipoff2:

Also I ordered some cutout flares for the rear but was wondering what was a good flare to run up front. I'm running flares off a 95 chevy in the rear but they haven't showed up yet.

My friend Stuart ran flares from an early Blazer (the first style, like the C10 pickups), and I thought they looked fantastic on his Traveler with full width axles. He got the ones that stuck out quite a bit. Sorry, I haven't got a picture of them, but if you look up a website that sells them, you'll see that the curve is complimentary to the Scout II wheelwell - you don't have to hack it into a square, in other words. <shrug>:smokin:

I still have some road feel, but it is true it makes the steering a little different for the feel you get vs stock. (redneck kit)

For the record... yeah, I lost a little road feel, but there is still some there. My steering returns to center, even with the HA hooked up. Acutally it feels like a rig rolling on standard size tires. After all, when I put the 36's on, it amplified the road feel to the point I was feeling too much of the road. So, I consider the loss of some of the road feel a good thing. The ability to turn the big tires without the need to have the truck rolling to do so is also a good thing. I like mine and do drive it on the road some, but it is not my daily driver.

try talking to scout 254, he just put hydro steer on his scout 80, he drives it on the road once and a while:flipoff2: :flipoff2: about the flares i talked to abba, and hes runnin ford f250 flares, seemed to look great, until his wife rolled he scout...

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