Scout 44 caster adjustment

JeepnRock

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I live in the Greensboro/Asheboro Area and wanted to know where I should take my axle to get the caster adjusted correctly or if anyone has done this before and could help me out. I don't have the welding experience to feel comfortable in doing this. Any ideas?? or what price this would run??

The axles are gonna run on a SOA '75 CJ5. So from what I read it needs to be about 6 degrees. Correct me if im wrong too.
 
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Doing it yourself really isnt all that difficult. I did mine on the first try with my Scout II. Im using CV driveshafts and that makes a difference in the amount of caster.
 
Drive shafts make no difference in the amount of caster.

Well unless you have magic drive shafts that change your front end alignment.



Anyway 6 degrees is about right.
 
amajeepman said:
Drive shafts make no difference in the amount of caster.
Well unless you have magic drive shafts that change your front end alignment.
Anyway 6 degrees is about right.
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this is true, unless you are rotating the pinion up as well. Did one previously on a Scout, and ended up rotating the knuckles ~18* to run a CV shaft up front.
 
amajeepman said:
Drive shafts make no difference in the amount of caster.
Well unless you have magic drive shafts that change your front end alignment.
Anyway 6 degrees is about right.
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When you are using a CV driveshaft it is better for the driveshaft to point from pinion to tcase

paradisePWoffrd said:
this is true, unless you are rotating the pinion up as well. Did one previously on a Scout, and ended up rotating the knuckles ~18* to run a CV shaft up front.
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Precisely! This is exactly what I did by the way which is the way I was told to do do it by guys on this forum. I had no clue how to do the adjustment so I posted on here Paradise was actually one of the guys who responded to my post. Mine turned out to be about 16.5-17*
 
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That 16.5-17* is negative caster. If the top of the knuckle is to the rear then you have positive. They recommend 6* positive caster.

I didn't rotate my knuckles. Running a standard dshaft. Tcase yoke angle is ~3.5*up so diff yoke is ~3.5* down. Therefore, since the scout axles are made with 0*, the caster angle is now +3.5*. Didn't even have to turn the C's. You could push it more assuming you aren't going to be running too fast with an out of sync driveshaft. Ofcourse, you have to weld new perches at this new angle.

I've had mine up +50mph and it steers fine, no wobble. I would prefer if it had a few more degrees, because it is fairly light steering at the wheel and I like more road feedback.


CV Dshaft -> point at tcase yoke
Standard DS -> yokes must be parallel (one pointing up at an angle and the other point down at that same angle)
 
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