I've been racking my brain trying to figure out why the heims made the steering so hard-After some close inspection watching the steering arms through it's travel- the stock ball joint end on the rack was getting in a bind due to the angle of of the A-arms and my re-location of the rack. Kept ripping the racks dust boots too. After adding 4 more grooves to the rack the dust boots were being stretched too far. So to simplify things all the way around I made a studded clevis to attach to the rack, the ball joint on the rack was 1" long, when removed the boots weren't being stretched too far. Have a bearing going bad in my homemade hubs so I ordered some new hubs from BMI (still waiting on them to get here before welding a new bolt/spindle on).
Somemeore pic's of the steering parts change over and assembly.
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