Chevy stuff into a Jeep YJ

[BiggDaddy]

OK everyone, I've got a buddy that is putting a 350 Chevy into a YJ. Has a Chevy 10 bolt front axle that is spring-over. Last night we got into the steering a bit. Chevy axle has Chevy tie-rod and drag link hooked up to the Jeep steering box with drop pitman arm. The tie-rod and drag-link currently run underneath the springs. Problem now is that the drag-link makes major contact with the passenger side spring when turning to the right. It just makes contact when about half-way turned, but at full turn, it is really bad. Does anybody know of anyone that has done this before, or any informational links as to what we can do here? /-------------------O
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Our best guess is that he will need a z-shaped drag link to make it work. We were really hoping that there is some type of vehicle out there that has one of these stock, or a place to find one for a decent price. Otherwise, it will involve flipping the tie-rod and the drag link to make them go over the springs, and that seems to be out of budget for this early in the build. Hope you guys can think of/ come up with something. Thanks.

BiggDaddy

[kyrel69]

so you are doing cross over steering.
The best thing to do is get a flat top knuckle and drill and tap it for arms and move the drag link up there.

Cheap is to to bend your drag link(or Z link as some say) Not the best for driveing on the road you will get lots of "bump Steer" If it is off road only and will be trailer to the trails then this is the cheapest and easy way to do it.

[blazerbrad]

So basically you have the draglink running towards the passenger side and it "Y's" onto the tierod. The best thing to do, as mentioned above, is to convert the passenger side knuckle to accept a steering arm bolted to the top of it, so the draglink goes over the spring and it not tied directly into the tierod.

Here's a good write-up with some pictures:
http://www.offroaddesign.com/catalog/Dana44crossover.htm

[JeepHD]

So basically you have the draglink running towards the passenger side and it "Y's" onto the tierod. The best thing to do, as mentioned above, is to convert the passenger side knuckle to accept a steering arm bolted to the top of it, so the draglink goes over the spring and it not tied directly into the tierod.

Here's a good write-up with some pictures:
http://www.offroaddesign.com/catalog/Dana44crossover.htm

BiggDaddy,

Good link above on what I was trying to tell you on the other forum. Might as well do the full hi-steer though when you do it. Justin can do the milling and tapping on the passenger knuckle if you get the ones from the D44.