Rogue Trooper

[Rogue Trooper]

Thanks Marty!

I'll be interested to hear how it goes Busy. The original mount in the car was straight forward I think so as long as they're set up in a similar fashion in the van I can't see why there'd be a problem.

[Bedfordcrazy]

Awesome set-up rogue, love it.

george.

[vanner065]

That looks great Rogue, very impressive. My arms run inward but up to the front cross member, i was told that the arms should be as long as possible, but i am no expert on them

James

[Dano]

Nice work boys, I would  love to go for a drive in a beddie with IRS, would love to go Jag ..........reckon they would be awsome.love the photo's too, cheers

[Rogue Trooper]

That looks great Rogue, very impressive. My arms run inward but up to the front cross member, i was told that the arms should be as long as possible, but i am no expert on them

James

Thanks James. There's a range of different views on how these diffs should and should not be mounted. Ozrodders for example have all sorts of differing opinions. Apparently you can take the arms straight ahead if you mimic the original setup which is what we have tried to do. The front of the arm has a massive rubber insert that gives it quite substantial flex so all going well I won't experience it 'walking' as Busy described previously. Also it's a bit difficult to get big long angled arms on mine as I have a mid-mounted engine in the way. The furthest I would get is the gear box mount and that isn't that far away.

Here's a pic of the front bush so you can see what I mean..

[BusyKiwi]

How are yours mounted James? To the gearbox mount or separate mounting?

[Rogue Trooper]

How are yours mounted James? To the gearbox mount or separate mounting?

That looks great Rogue, very impressive. My arms run inward but up to the front cross member, i was told that the arms should be as long as possible, but i am no expert on them

James

[BusyKiwi]

The top photo of James's looks like they are mounted under the gearbox mount. Is hard to tell hows it's mounted to the body (the cross member), if it's similar mount to CF it would flex abit back and forwards.

The arms I used for mine are commodore pan hard rods off the diff, falcon are very similar

[Rogue Trooper]

The rack is in and works really well and even with it not working under power it's much nicer steering than the standard Bedford one as I found out when we loaded the van onto the tow truck to bring it home at long last.

One of the pics with my big fat hand in it pulling back the boot shows where my rack was extended. Rather than George's method in which he had new arms made up mine had this insert made up and installed between the arm and the rack. It's the bit with the notch out of the top for a spanner for those who have no idea what I'm talking about.

I don't have any pictures of the actual bracket yet but will take some when I yank it out to get it powder coated but here are some in the meantime of how it is sitting in the van.

[Rogue Trooper]

Something I forgot to mention when posting last night is that the reason the rack was extended behind the steering arm pivot point unlike George's was that the theory goes, if the pivot point sits on a line drawn between the top and bottom wishbone mounts this should reduce the possibility of any bump steer. If you take a look at the photo (sorry about the hand thing again Dano) you'll see that that is where mine now sits.




We also reset the springs before it came home. I'm an absolute weapon at removing and replacing springs now. Nice new shocks too. The springs have been lowered by 20mm. When the engine was moved back the front sat up a lot higher so resetting the springs has fixed that but it's probably now a little lower than normal. There is just a touch of negative camber on the front wheels which is great and the 15" wheels fill the wheel arches really nicely.