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offgrid 
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Joined: 23 Jul 2018 Online Status: Offline Posts: 5290 |
 Topic: New to me R Pod 178 ownerPosted: 28 Feb 2019 at 10:30am |
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Sounds like a good plan. I suggest you try to mount the inner end of the link/bar as high as possible so it is as close to vertical as possible and also to minimize the torque getting applied to the trailer frame rails.
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Toyanvil
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Joined: 15 Feb 2019 Location: Bakersfield Online Status: Offline Posts: 157 |
Posted: 28 Feb 2019 at 9:53am |
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Plan A is an adjustable link, plan B will just be a bar. The adjustable link will be built at my friends machine shop, he builds really cool stuff.
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offgrid
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Posted: 28 Feb 2019 at 9:28am |
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Pushing tension is compression. Turnbuckles aren't designed for that, the rods and/or the turnbuckle will buckle under load. In tension they stay aligned and can take a lot of load, but not in compression. Bear in mind that the compression load on it will be something like 2500 lbs vertical during a bump load event so if you can keep a 45 degree angle it will see about 3500 lbs of compression. The more vertical you can keep it the better.
If you want something adjustable you'll need a jackscrew of some type, which has much heavier parts in it and fittings that are designed to keep everything aligned to prevent buckling. If you don't need it to be adjustable maybe just get a bracket welded up with a box tube extending down from the axle mounting bracket to the axle. Then through bolt the tube to the clamp set up you're planning at the axle end. Good luck!
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Toyanvil
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Posted: 28 Feb 2019 at 8:41am |
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I will be building a clamp set up for the end of the axle. The plan is to build a turn buckle like link that will push tension down on the ends of the axle after it is realigned. I did see your post, and be watching.
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offgrid
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Posted: 28 Feb 2019 at 5:39am |
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Toyanvil, can you clarify how you're planning to connect to the axle?
When you say turnbuckles, which are designed to be used in tension, are you talking about putting tension on the end of the axle to pull it up? If so, that will be counterproductive, the axle problems occur when the wheels take a bump load and are pushed up, so you need to support them by pressing vertically down on the axle ends. If you haven't already, take a look at the thread "axle reinforcement" for my solution to this problem.
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Toyanvil
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Posted: 27 Feb 2019 at 11:43pm |
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I started cutting out plates for my axle supports. I only have a picture of one for now, it was my pattern before I cut three more and drill the bolt holes. They will look like shock mounts, the holes will hold a turn buckle attached to a mount at the end of the axle. The plan is to have two plates per side welded to the lift block and not attached to the frame in any way. The goal is to support the end of the axle to keep it from flexing under load.
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lostagain
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Joined: 06 Sep 2016 Location: Quaker Hill, CT Online Status: Offline Posts: 2587 |
Posted: 20 Feb 2019 at 5:34am |
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offgrid you misquoted me. You left out "But it could easily be on the coast too." Lawyers always hedge their bets. ;--) [I don't think I'll be able to put the emojis in until I get back to NV, where we rarely have tule fog.]
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Never leave footprints behind.
Fred & Maria Kearney Sonoma 167RB Our Pod 172 2019 Ford F-150 4x4 2.7 EcoBoost |
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offgrid
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Posted: 20 Feb 2019 at 5:25am |
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lostagain, you're just grumpy because you lost out on the where is this trailer contest
 .Maybe we should start a regular topic where folks put up a some photos of their pod somewhere and we have to try to figure it where it is. Like GeoGuessr for rpods. No fair cheating like I did by inspecting the HTML. Now that would take up some excess time over the winter till we can go camping again.
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lostagain
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Posted: 20 Feb 2019 at 4:42am |
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Nah, we're just a bunch'a grumpy old men with too much time on our hands. ;--)
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Never leave footprints behind.
Fred & Maria Kearney Sonoma 167RB Our Pod 172 2019 Ford F-150 4x4 2.7 EcoBoost |
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Toyanvil
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Posted: 19 Feb 2019 at 9:32pm |
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You guys are funny.
Yes it's a TW200 And it is above Big Sur, I will say coming down the Grapevine looks very close when the fog is out. 
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