Anyone have any suggestions or tips on how you have mounted a steering orbital valve on a unibodied rig? I am needing to mount a new orbital valve on my ZJ. I am sure the process for a XJ and ZJ would be similar....

I just made a bracket, welded to the unibody, cut down the steering shaft, and bolted it in.



http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p320/hintonsooner/IMG00139-sm-1.jpg

ditto...

I just made a bracket, welded to the unibody, cut down the steering shaft, and bolted it in.



http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p320/hintonsooner/IMG00139-sm-1.jpg


okie would that leave room for coilover or airshock hoops...i've been thinking about doing this sometime next year...we'll see....i will definately be doing full hydro soon....

why ya want to do full hydro? assist isnt working for ya?

okie would that leave room for coilover or airshock hoops...i've been thinking about doing this sometime next year...we'll see....i will definately be doing full hydro soon....

Yeah, there's plenty of room to work with.



http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p320/hintonsooner/IMG00376.jpg

why ya want to do full hydro? assist isnt working for ya?

it's got enough ass, but when the tires are tied up in the bigger rocks it get really hard to turn the steering wheel without giving the jeep some gas for some reason...:shaking:but for all intensive purposes it works fine....

I ran mine further forward, I just welded a bracket to the unibody.
http://www.wheelingarizona.com/forums/files/thumbs/t_steeringvalve_174.jpg
(http://www.wheelingarizona.com/forums/files/steeringvalve_174.jpg)

http://www.wheelingarizona.com/forums/files/thumbs/t_steeringvalve2_851.jpg
(http://www.wheelingarizona.com/forums/files/steeringvalve2_851.jpg)

it's got enough ass, but when the tires are tied up in the bigger rocks it get really hard to turn the steering wheel without giving the jeep some gas for some reason...:shaking:but for all intensive purposes it works fine....

What pump are you running? Stock one? Did you mod it at all? Sounds like a flow issue.

Assist sucks because you have to deal with dumb mechanical linkage, I am going full hydro in december! My plan is to just weld a bracket anywhere it will fit, I am going to be running airshocks in the front so space might be a little tighter

my attempt:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/bigwhitehd/98%20jeep/DSC01682.jpg

there is a coilover tower behind that

http://www.fototime.com/158AA668562F2D4/standard.jpg

http://www.fototime.com/F38B785AF20BAA5/standard.jpg

Coilovers, plenty of room.

This is on a ZJ

http://pirate4x4.com/forum/picture.php?pictureid=1701&albumid=219&dl=1226550974

No one aswered the question of the pump....What pump are yall running? I am going to go full hydro with my jeep, and I have the 4.0L. Did you have to change or modify the factory pump.

Stock TC pump with new flow control valve and poppet from Tommy Lee for 3.75gpm at 1400psi

excuse my ignorance but "TC", What is that refering to? Does Tommy Lee have a website or telephone number?

Ben

Just leave the orbital in the stock steering box location and use the psc column adapter. Mount the orbital to a fabbed up plate and then bolt the plate to the stock box location.

This is what I ended up with.

http://www.mallcrawlin.com/forum//attachment.php?attachmentid=3996&stc=1&d=1230530644

This is what I ended up with.

http://www.mallcrawlin.com/forum//attachment.php?attachmentid=3996&stc=1&d=1230530644

What kind of motor mount is that?

Stock jeep 4.0l mount.