You could buy 6 or 7 hoss 3.0 racks for what I have into my 74 weld "unbreakable" rack that I've broken twice. By far the biggest waste of money.
I’ve swapped a couple out on the trail. But now wifey can do it so it shouldn’t be too terrible. I’ll watch the dogs while the ladies enthusiastically swap it out. Easy work.
unfortunately for me. I probably fall in the ladies category then.
If a loose fastener was to blame, it could be the input shaft clevis bolt, make sure thats tight. but I doubt it explains the issue, at least fully
Yeah, this is how I got my Billet passenger side housing, he was actually out on the trail on a Saturday and I was trying to order had his wife add it to the site so I could purchase it. Super cool guy.
Yeah, like Sierrabronco said.... I was on messenger with him when I ordered my billet passenger housing. Good dude.
Yeah, he joined and was posting here and we weren't very nice to him. I don't think all that has aged very well...
I did my mods because of the lack of support at the worm shaft, and the passenger side is just suspended in thin air. My experience is the bushing and billet passenger housing is good insurance if doing tougher trails. Still binds like all of them if crossed up with lockers, but seems a little better than stock to me???
Yeah, the passenger housing i got from him is pretty stout and a nice piece. The pics of his long travel in action speak for themselves, definitely has some travel. Plus like I said his customer service is pretty good....
Vasher?
Yeah, his username is Miketator. Maybe "not very nice" is overstating it a bit, maybe more like "74W is awesome, how can just a guy do any better". At least that's what I remember. I dunno, I just remember not being surprised he didn't last long.
Definitely hasn’t aged well if you’re a 74 rack owner
Indeed. A positive attribute of this forum is to be skeptical but with the purpose of increasing knowledge and improving products we all care about. A lofty goal that requires a thick skin from the product developers.
this is the one of the fundamental requirements. The steering rack is displacement dominated. Perfectly constrained displacements by the housing is step one to improved performance. Of course stresses need to be limited to avoid housing failure but displacement control is the objective
So even with perfect displacement control the rack/pinion must function within reasonable steering effort and lash control. This is completely incumbent on the internals.
So curious where you are getting your geometry data from for the rack housing? Once you have the geometry data are you then running fully first principle (conservation of mass, momentum, and energy) finite element simulations? If so it would be awesome to quantify the increased rate of return from a full housing vs bandaid end conditions on displacements wrt given loading conditions. It is entirely possible that good displacement control at the end conditions, although perceived as a bandaid, may be good enough for many. Perhaps a 75% improvement over oem rack wrt full housing. And much more cost effective.
