Ok, got some new updates coming your way. I've been working like a mad man on the truck lately. Oh how I love progress!!
Here's how the watts link came together. I stared at my diff cover for a while until I figured out how I was going to attach my center pivot.
Here are my center arm pieces before welding them together to make the center bar.
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I'm using a $10 s10 upper ball joint as the center pivot.
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I didn't have a tapered reamer but this step drill bit worked great for drilling the taper in the center pivot. (Ignore the ugly tack welds, my mig was out of gas)
Frame mount arm pivot brackets. I made them square and then decided to get fancy with the grinder and round the edges. By the time I'm done with this project I'm gonna be a grinder artist! I'll be at the fair beside the chainsaw guy carving bears.
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Here it is installed!
I'm super impressed with how we'll it works. It goes up and down with the full range of my bags and there is zero lateral movement in my axel. The best part is I built the whole thing for less than $100 bucks.
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