Over the knuckle steering question

[TheChubbyOutdoorsman]

This may have been covered somewhere, but i couldn't find it.

Has it ever been discussed to run an over the knuckle type steering? Ream a taper into the knuckle, weld in a taper sleeve, and flip the tie rod to the top of the knuckle? Would this be beneficial in go fast applications? I've seen it done on crawlers and such. Debating on doing so on my factory knuckles.

[ChaseTruck754]

People have done this with single swing steering setups. They typically drill the taper out & run a bolt through for a heim & then weld a plate setup to the knuckle as well so as to add a double shear setup for the heim.

What is your goal? There are some clearance issues to look at & if your desire is to just move the tie rod up & out of the way a bit more like on a crawler it would be too much work to justify that I'd think. Now if you are extending or modifying your beams & building a custom steering setup along with that then you'd be doing the work anyway so it could be worth seeing if the tie rod could fit above the knuckle for you.

[TheChubbyOutdoorsman]

Right on, I'm not totally sure what my end goal with the truck is yet, as I am on the east coast there's not a lot of go fast places to use it. So i figured an otk steering would be a good way to get rhe steering up and out of the way some, and less likely to have to use as big of a drop pitman arm for steering correction. That way if i take it on a trail i won't completely pulverize the steering but would still be functional to keep some travel numbers with the suspension

[dtbback]

it's called the tie rod end flip. There's a pretty extensive thread, regarding this on fullsizebronco.com. I have posted the link below.

http://www.fullsizebronco.com/forum/23- ... -flip.html

[TheChubbyOutdoorsman]

AH,much appreciated, seems i may have just been calling it the wrong thing. I will have to check the link out.

[dtbback]

If you're going to build a bronco with swing steering, I'd say leave the tie rod in the original position. The bump steer in the original design will be solved by the swinger and the bend in the tie rods will not be as severe in the factory location.

[TheChubbyOutdoorsman]

I am proabably not going to include a swing steering setup, at least in this stage of the build. Maybe if i eventually get a full prerunner setup it will happen.