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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
I believe I understand what you are saying, but anyway we can see a picture of this set up? Just curious to see the relationship you have between your mounting blocks and your frame members in order to faciltate this "jack screw."
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Absolutely. Here is our 2009 setup. The bolt is in front of the wheel. The small block that the bolt runs through is welded to the frame was tapped. It is backed all the way out in the picture so it is not pushing the shaft end.
CD won't let me embed a photo from flickr, so here is the link:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/69166132@N06/6329918057
Here, you can see it on the left side and you can also see a bit of the slot that the shaft rides in:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/6916613...n/photostream/
We improved upon that this year. Instead of welding to the frame, we used 1/8" thick aluminum angle and rivited to the frame, then used a couple jam nuts on the bolt. That got rid of the welding and the tapping. We also put a small aluminum square on the shaft and drilled a hole for the bolt end to rest in, so it didn't try to walk off the shaft under high load.