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Pirate4x4.Com > General Tech > General 4x4 Discussion > hydro assist mount? PDA : hydro assist mount? YotaCrawler 10-06-2002, 10:17 PM Whats the best way to mount the hydro assist ram? PAt TheLakeRat 10-07-2002, 05:34 PM need more info than that! What axle? what type steering? what truck? TPIJeep 10-07-2002, 06:01 PM I assume you have a Dana 60 with high steer... here is a pic of my mount... bigbene 10-07-2002, 06:35 PM Aren't you worried about hitting something with it mounted that low? Looks like there'd be enough room to put it in line with the tie-rod. 'Course, I might be lookin' at the pic wrong too. :confused: TPIJeep 10-07-2002, 07:09 PM Originally posted by bigbene Aren't you worried about hitting something with it mounted that low? Looks like there'd be enough room to put it in line with the tie-rod. 'Course, I might be lookin' at the pic wrong too. :confused: Well it is above the bottom of the axle tube so it is not a low point, I do need to make some sort of protection for it... I already have a guard for the hydro line on the front of the box.. Curtis 10-07-2002, 08:05 PM Originally posted by TPIJeep I assume you have a Dana 60 with high steer... here is a pic of my mount... That's how I have mine mounted. The only thing on your's I'd worry about is the way the line is routed through the shackle. It seems the movement of the shackle would eventually wear through the line. 2stroke 10-07-2002, 08:27 PM that shackle dont move! DavidO 10-07-2002, 09:08 PM Originally posted by Curtis That's how I have mine mounted. The only thing on your's I'd worry about is the way the line is routed through the shackle. It seems the movement of the shackle would eventually wear through the line. or you would pull up and bump a rock, cutting the line. But, if it works it works. Does anyone have pics with hummer wheel setups? ~dso TPIJeep 10-08-2002, 11:56 AM Originally posted by Curtis The only thing on your's I'd worry about is the way the line is routed through the shackle. It seems the movement of the shackle would eventually wear through the line. Well no movement there because of the SRS, but the line is no longer run that way, that was done because of a fitting clocking problem, it is now fixed and out of harms way... BadDog 10-08-2002, 03:28 PM Mine is mounted like TPIJeep's pic, except I've got a 1.75 x 0.375 DOM tie rod in front to help protect it. I was actually going to go high steer, but mounting the ram up top was going to be too much of a pain. Steve Fox on CK5 went through it and I just decided it was not worth the work, $$$, and the associated problems (putting extra stress on the TREs due to increased leverage over stock). So, I kept the tie rod low and beefed it up to handle the punishment and protect the ram...