Okay...Getting ready to mount my full hydro (double through) and I'm going behind the axle....However I want the ram as low as possible. This will require the ram going on the long tube of the axle...Which, in turn, will necessitate different length tie-rods.

I can't see anything fundamentally wrong with this approach, but I wanted to run it by you guys. Again, I will center the ram on the long tube, necessitating the different tie-rod lengths. The reason for this is that in order to get the ram as low as possible on the backside of the axle, I must put it on the long tube. Centered on the axle would require a x-over tube/brace (over the pig) and that would put me over the high steer arms which mount lower (relative to the axle centerline) when reversed. Not to mention all the other clearance issues with mounting the ram behide the axle...Make sense?

Station has mentioned that the potential for different scrub radius (lock to lock) and acherman (sp?) angles when turning, but I have a problem visualizing this one. This is a trail only rig (well a little street use...:) )

Thanks guy's...

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scrub radius will not change. one tire will turn slightly farther than the other, effectively more ackerman turning one way than the other. I think the effect will be so small that no one would notice unless you pointed it out. I don't think it would be a problem at all. I would put the ram as close to the center as possible though. If the short tie rod gets really short like less than 3 times the length of the steering arm, the effects start getting more noticeable. (Notecable enough that an engineer designing farm equiptment would calculate it)