How to keep you pinion right with a 2-link

^^^ ah poor thing 35 is a high for us LOL teens at night and snow fallin as we speak and i mean big honkin flakes...... been on and off and mixture of slush.....

It's not my fault you dumb bastards are gluttons for punishment.

I was just thinking yesterday when I was swapping u-joints, "I wonder how many other States in the Union can you run around in a T-shirt, shorts and flip-flops in December?"

You can in Cali.

We're tough enough in Nebraska to run in shorts in 20 and 30 degree weather.


Back to the pinion angle. I'm just saying with a 2-link if you set the pinion angle at ride height it will change and be wrong at any other height. Now add the double cardon(a type of cv joint) make your front bar pivots the same as the center of the double cardon and walla your pinion angle is always correct. Does it make any difference? IDK but if you wanted to put the extra effort into it it might be worth it.

I was just throwing it out there.

but wont a angle change occur ina 4 link setup and such or jsut not as drastic compared to a 2 link.... and in regards to chase, did he ever really drive townasty at ride height,? or was ride height draggin

i run around in shorts and flip flos yr round here in florida.. lol..

Just so happens that my "ride height" is just a couple inches off the ground. I align my trucks as low as I can get them and the laser on the alignment machine still reads. DragNasty is aligned so low that I cant even drive it lifted up high because it throws the tow in WAY off.

hahah thats to funny i was actuaccly sort of kidding lol but i guess if driving low better to ahve it there then up top...

actually the amount the pinion angle changes depends on the length of the 2 link bars. The longer the bars are the less the pinion angle changes per inch. and IF the pivot point of the 2 link bars is in the same place as the U-joint in the driveline you would not have any pinion angle issue. If you run the 2 link bars as long as you can and run a 2 piece drivshaft with the U-joint in the pivot line you would have the setup about as good as it can get on any particular vehicle.

DUH

I was saying doing the way I described would make the pinion angle right. Not just "good enough".

this may have been said before... but


the 2 link pinion angle will only be right at one height. up or down of that and its out of whack. The best you can do is make the bars as long as possible and have the angle "right" where you will drive most.