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lowering the steering center link on sidekick/tracker???????????

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Offline Jluck

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lowering the steering center link on sidekick/tracker???????????
« on: December 31, 2010, 04:35:29 PM »
is there any thing out there to drop the steering linkage on trackicks? I need to drop mine just a little bit to make oil pan clearance.

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Re: lowering the steering center link on sidekick/tracker???????????
« Reply #1 on: December 31, 2010, 06:43:39 PM »
How little ? 1"?
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Re: lowering the steering center link on sidekick/tracker???????????
« Reply #2 on: December 31, 2010, 08:14:21 PM »
1" would be great or even a bit less would do.
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Re: lowering the steering center link on sidekick/tracker???????????
« Reply #3 on: January 01, 2011, 02:59:40 AM »
Ya, could do a custom center link, dropped tie rod holes and
a spaced down link rod, DOM tubing and 1/2" rod ends for a
grade 8 bolt instead of the ball joints, this prevents the center
link from rotating and giving you bump steer also.

I don't know how much you want to do, I would go ahead and
create longer tie rods and a center mount point instead of using
the stock tie rods

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Re: lowering the steering center link on sidekick/tracker???????????
« Reply #4 on: January 01, 2011, 07:12:29 AM »
That's along the lines of what I was thinking, was wondering if there was anything already on the market.
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Re: lowering the steering center link on sidekick/tracker???????????
« Reply #5 on: January 01, 2011, 08:40:39 PM »
Nope, total custom fabrication
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Re: lowering the steering center link on sidekick/tracker???????????
« Reply #6 on: January 02, 2011, 05:19:47 PM »
is there any thing out there to drop the steering linkage on trackicks? I need to drop mine just a little bit to make oil pan clearance.

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Why does it need to be dropped?  Unless something is bent/broken/modified, it should clear fine.
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Re: lowering the steering center link on sidekick/tracker???????????
« Reply #7 on: January 02, 2011, 05:25:26 PM »
The oil pump on the Audi motor hangs down right atop the linkage. Just need a 1/2"-1" and thought there might be some handy dandy fix or mod out there already.
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Re: lowering the steering center link on sidekick/tracker???????????
« Reply #8 on: January 02, 2011, 05:49:54 PM »
The oil pump on the Audi motor hangs down right atop the linkage. Just need a 1/2"-1" and thought there might be some handy dandy fix or mod out there already.

Oh, ok.  You are running an audi engine...I wasn't aware of that.
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Re: lowering the steering center link on sidekick/tracker???????????
« Reply #9 on: January 03, 2011, 08:57:30 AM »
Hey Jared, I got this one covered...Do you remember what I did on my race Sidekick? That steering is dropped about 3" with stock mounting locations. It uses a Sky's idler arm flipped over and a drop pitman arm. You'll have to get Sky to reverse the taper on the arm to make this work with stock components. You'll have to figure something out on the spindle side to keep your geometry correct...

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Re: lowering the steering center link on sidekick/tracker???????????
« Reply #10 on: January 03, 2011, 10:18:32 AM »
that was exactly what I had planned for the idler arm but what drop pitman arm did you use? (the only one I have seen was calminis for trackick p/s conv.) BTW, thanks
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Re: lowering the steering center link on sidekick/tracker???????????
« Reply #11 on: January 03, 2011, 08:35:39 PM »
that was exactly what I had planned for the idler arm but what drop pitman arm did you use? (the only one I have seen was calminis for trackick p/s conv.) BTW, thanks

Yeah, the Calmini Sidekick/Tracker drop pitman arm. That's the one. :)

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