1985 D150 "Mr. Curtis" race truck with a 2015 6.4
I am so wary of the results with the front axle with this project that i don't even trust the measurents i take or calculate and do it over and over again.
I even take measurements from pictures (like comparative: If this number of pixels equals this measurement in inches, there is a factor that can be calculated and used on every other measurement in that picture, as long as the measurement is not taken over a perspective in the picture).
What i worked with was a calculation of 1.42" for the addition of axle width in installing the wheel bearing.
I only have LCAs and a spindle, no wheel bearing or rotors yet (too expensive right now, i'm broke).
So i took the 68" track width of the 1500 and went backwards with the measurements i have at hand and calculated that each wheel bearing PLUS the thickness of the rotors flange would add 1.42" in width.
And that gave all kinds of problems.
For example, the 1500s LCAs would have to come very far outboard, resulting in a high misalignment of the spring perches.
On the other hand, the modified VAN-lca-solution would have left me with too narrow a track width.
Now i think i found that i was all wrong.
According to taking several measurements from pictures (i stayed in the same plane of view) the wheel bearings add 2.04" instead of 1.4".
Which gives a go for the VAN-lca-solution.
But with these different numbers i want to go and make sure the 1500s control arms don't accidentally fit after all.
Assuming the rotor flange thickness to be 10mm (0.39") and re-doing the calculations on that base data i have to move the 1500s control arms INBOARD by an inch from what i thought where they would sit.
Leaving me with an estimated 3.5" misalignment (if you want to apply that to the picture, the spring wire is 0.87").
And i need to know if that takes me back into the ballpark of getting a spring in there without it binding up.
I fiddled with photoshop but it left me with no result...
I am so wary of the results with the front axle with this project that i don't even trust the measurents i take or calculate and do it over and over again.
I even take measurements from pictures (like comparative: If this number of pixels equals this measurement in inches, there is a factor that can be calculated and used on every other measurement in that picture, as long as the measurement is not taken over a perspective in the picture).
What i worked with was a calculation of 1.42" for the addition of axle width in installing the wheel bearing.
I only have LCAs and a spindle, no wheel bearing or rotors yet (too expensive right now, i'm broke).
So i took the 68" track width of the 1500 and went backwards with the measurements i have at hand and calculated that each wheel bearing PLUS the thickness of the rotors flange would add 1.42" in width.
And that gave all kinds of problems.
For example, the 1500s LCAs would have to come very far outboard, resulting in a high misalignment of the spring perches.
On the other hand, the modified VAN-lca-solution would have left me with too narrow a track width.
Now i think i found that i was all wrong.
According to taking several measurements from pictures (i stayed in the same plane of view) the wheel bearings add 2.04" instead of 1.4".
Which gives a go for the VAN-lca-solution.
But with these different numbers i want to go and make sure the 1500s control arms don't accidentally fit after all.
Assuming the rotor flange thickness to be 10mm (0.39") and re-doing the calculations on that base data i have to move the 1500s control arms INBOARD by an inch from what i thought where they would sit.
Leaving me with an estimated 3.5" misalignment (if you want to apply that to the picture, the spring wire is 0.87").
And i need to know if that takes me back into the ballpark of getting a spring in there without it binding up.
I fiddled with photoshop but it left me with no result...
