I have stock width C/T beams on my class 3. I am going to be finishing up the welding soon of all the gusseting/bracing/raduis arms/shock mounts. I have heard that the window on the passenger side beam needs to be clearenced for the axle during cycling. Right now I am looking at having to mount the gear carrier and axles back in, removing the shocks and cycling the suspension to find what would need clearancing. Does anyone know where and how much (if any)of the beam needs to be clearenced? If not I can quit being lazy and go out to the garage and actually do the work!
Thanks in advance!
Erik
C/T Beam axle clearance
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Re: C/T Beam axle clearance
Mine needed a big cutout at the bottom of the window do to clearance at droop. It needed a gusset after it was done due to the amount of material removed.
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Re: C/T Beam axle clearance
Thanks! Thats what I figured eyeballing it. I would really like to try and "cheat" the process to speed things up a bit, do you have any pictures/dimensions of the material you removed?
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Re: C/T Beam axle clearance
Stolen from Nick's build. Southwest performance did these.
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Re: C/T Beam axle clearance
Oh wow! That is a healthy cut out! Thanks! That'll help alot.
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Re: C/T Beam axle clearance
Moved to appropriate forum.
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Re: C/T Beam axle clearance
Hi Erik,
I started out with white paint on the axle and ground a little each trip. The last trip there was no marks on the paint. It looks like I removed about 1/16-less than 1/8" when done. I will continue to monitor. The only suitable tool I had in Baja was a Dremel. Slow going.
Paul
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I started out with white paint on the axle and ground a little each trip. The last trip there was no marks on the paint. It looks like I removed about 1/16-less than 1/8" when done. I will continue to monitor. The only suitable tool I had in Baja was a Dremel. Slow going.
Paul
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ESHALLBETTER wrote:I have stock width C/T beams on my class 3. I am going to be finishing up the welding soon of all the gusseting/bracing/raduis arms/shock mounts. I have heard that the window on the passenger side beam needs to be clearenced for the axle during cycling. Right now I am looking at having to mount the gear carrier and axles back in, removing the shocks and cycling the suspension to find what would need clearancing. Does anyone know where and how much (if any)of the beam needs to be clearenced? If not I can quit being lazy and go out to the garage and actually do the work!
Thanks in advance!
Erik