I mean Ive seen 69myways 2 joint set up work with my own eyes. He has a video on his website. Gene has been rockin his home made set up with 2 joints for a long time. I would like some pics of the crescent that Gene cut out of the motor mount arm. I dont think Chris-69myway did. Im gonna order them tonight. I only paid 30 bucks for my rack with low miles and two pass. side tie rods, so Im not real concerned with spending the money on some nice joints.
BB, I just set the rack up on jack stands, and rotated it around until the steering would work with just two U joints on the input shaft...not a great issue...trick was to raise the level of the rack input shaft....and put more angle down there, which relaxed the severe angle on the upper joint....
in order to do so, I found to cut a crescent out of the back edge of the engine mount...about 2.5" diameter....I have a whole bunch of hole saws, so it was a no sweat operation....check the rack with the Ujoint on it for the needed diameter, don't go my memory from 7 years ago....
I did all this in a MAJOR overhaul/reconfiguration of the car winter 01-2.....
it was just one major alteration to the car...out of a long series...
but the hole saw center was set on the outer lip of the mount, and so drilled it fine and into the perfect crescent shape.....the engine was out of the car, so it was easy...having spec'd the exact location of the OEM cross link and knowing it's relationship to the oil pan.....mucho time with tape measure....
Olde tyme carpenter's trick....measure once cut twice....something like that....:surrender:
one thing....when doing that cut, a smooth transistion around the cut as being important for not introducing metal cracks and stress points....
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:beer: for value received I make Turtle look like a spendthrift....
