RE: [ihc] Tie Rod Placement

["Pete Shubin" <pshubin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

These things are pretty neat.  Here is the link
http://www.dandcextreme.com/product.asp?pkID=95

I'll skip this on the Scout II but it is something I'll do on the Dana 44 I
have for the 800 project.

Pete


-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Grammer [mailto:jgrammer@domain.elided] 
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 2:31 PM
To: Peter Shubin; ihc@domain.elided
Subject: RE: [ihc] Tie Rod Placement

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Peter Shubin
>Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 11:34 AM
>To: ihc@domain.elided
>Subject: [ihc] Tie Rod Placement

>Can the Scout II tie rod be moved from the bottom of the knuckles to the
top
>of the knuckles?  I've been working out the post lift quirks on my Scout II
>and have pretty much everything else mounted up high and out of the way
>except the tie rod.  I would just pull it and see but the caked on grease
is
>protecting the ends of the rods from the elements and preventing me from
>seeing if the ends of the rod are tapered.

They are tapered. D and C Extreme sells adapters with a straight outer wall
and an interior taper. You drill/ream the tapered holes in the knuckles, and
insert the 'flipserts' with the major diameter of the taper facing up.

Jim