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Ok we have
the boxed rear arms painted, now lets build
the rear suspension. We will not be stetting
the torsion preload just yet since we are un
sure of our rear shock placement. So we will
just get every thing in place.
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is a quick little adjustment we made prior to setting
the rear arms into the pivots. We notched out the
bottom of the pivot box to allow the arm to rotate
all the way down. (sorry about the poor second photo).
Later on we are going to also notch our spring plates to give us
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To re-mount the Boxed
rear arms, we had to get new I.R.S. arm bushings that
we used a vice to press them in. Then we took the
old pivot bolts and washers that had been sand blasted
and bolted them arms back in place. We have not
secured them in until we get the Sway-A-Way spring plates
in place. |
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We check to make sure the knobby grommets fit inside
the torsion housing and that the new torsion bars went in
well. For the torsion bars, we chose
to go with a 27mm bar. This will really
tighten up the suspension for off-road. And as you
can see, we no longer have the bars sticking out
of the torsion by using flush mount spring |
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new grommets come with a small tube of lubricate
to apply on them. This will prevent squeaking in
the future. Be sure to use this were metal is going
to come in contact with the grommets. We used it
on the inner knobby grommets and
outer round grommets. Then
the chrome cap was put on.
We needed use shorter bolts to hold on the caps. |
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stock spring plates had two two metal plates that
attached to the rear arm. Our Sway A Way plates just
have one that attaches to the inside of the arm.
We needed a long pry bar and two people to get them
in place. Ounce they were, we tightened up our pivot
bolts. |
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these photos you can see the difference in torsion
bar length from old to new. |
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If you have any
questions or comments about Project Baja please e-mail
don@chirco.com
we sure would like to hear from you.
