SXOR single seater build

The new shaft from Branik was delivered as I was on my way out the door to work yesterday evening. I stopped by the shop on the way in this morning and put it in and buttoned up the rear end.

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Haven’t made much progress lately but I had hauled the UBs for the front axle in to work a while back in anticipation of using the radial arm drill in the shop to re-drill them when I had the time. I had a slow OT shift this weekend so I got them knocked out.

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I sat on a stool and stared at it for about an hour before work this morning trying to decide what I’m going to do for the steering. I bought a nice ram mount/skid but it’s going to take a lot of cutting to make it work. Thinking of just going the tube/plate route and be done.
 
I actually got in a little bit of shop time today for the first time in ages.

I decided to stick with the Goatbuilt ram mount and run the ram offset to the driver’s side. I had to get a little creative to get it mocked up in place to tack weld only having one set of hands. But it’s on there and seems to be straight and level. The tie rods might not be 100% in line with the ram at full lock, but they will be much closer than the old axle was.

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I also measured for and ordered some 7075 tie rods from Wide Open Design.
 
Just had a few minutes this afternoon before work. I stuck the new 7075 tie rods on the axle to make sure they fit.

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And I also replaced the temporary upper link tabs with the permanent tabs. They will be gusseted and tied into the back side of the ram mount.

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I had a little more time today and bolted up the unit bearings to check the fitment with the Spidertrax rotors, Wilwood calipers, and JHF/Branik caliper brackets. Everything fit just like it should.

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I also used shop air to cycle the steering lock to lock. Maybe because of the offset ram but it steers a little more one direction than the other. One way it doesn’t hit the stops at all and the other direction it hits the stops with a little travel left in the ram. I need to double check all my measurements and make sure the knuckles are straight and centered and try it again before I just trim the stops.



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Measure ram throw on each side and if only off by a little just adjust linkage a little from ram to knuckle, as long as ram is evenly moving.
 
BRUISER said:
Measure ram throw on each side and if only off by a little just adjust linkage a little from ram to knuckle, as long as ram is evenly moving.
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I looked at it for a few minutes this morning. The alignment was a little off. Gotta get it squared back up and and cycle again and see how it is. Just ran out of time this morning and had to head to work.

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I got the steering straightened out this morning. I just had it a little off when I put the tie rods in. Toe is set at 0” +/- 1/16” and you can slide a piece of cereal box between the stops on both sides with the ram at full lock either direction.

After I got that straightened out I started working on the brake line mounts until my welder jammed up and I ran out of time.

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Those axles are making me jealous and causing me to rethink the D60/14B under the new buggy. I already have two brand new Spider 9s laying around, several 9" centers, a spool, and an ARB. Only would need shafts, brakes, more fab time, and $5-6K :laughing: I have to rebuild the 14B anyway 🤔 :dumbass:
 
Joe_U4 said:
Those axles are making me jealous and causing me to rethink the D60/14B under the new buggy. I already have two brand new Spider 9s laying around, several 9" centers, a spool, and an ARB. Only would need shafts, brakes, more fab time, and $5-6K :laughing: I have to rebuild the 14B anyway 🤔 :dumbass:
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A bent link mount on the original axle which already had 35 spline 300M Branik shafts caused all the 40 spline, 10” gears nonsense so don’t follow my lead if don’t enjoy just spending money because the parts are cool. :laughing:

Seriously it did have pretty decently built 9” based axles under it already but rear also had a trashed spindle from either improper assembly by me, or incorrect hub/bearings. Never really took the time figure out the cause.

It was easier /made more sense to just build a new housing because the original was way more narrow than I liked. It required new shafts. 40 spline wasn’t that much more than 35 spline. But ya know if you’re going to run 40 spline shafts the stock 9” pinion probably won’t like it much. So 10” gears would sure be nice. You can see how this snowballed… And of course then the front axle was too narrow to match the rear and all those same statements held true for it. Except the direct drive stubs, those were just pure nonsense, but damn they’re cool as shit! :laughing:
 
Joe_U4 said:
Those axles are making me jealous and causing me to rethink the D60/14B under the new buggy. I already have two brand new Spider 9s laying around, several 9" centers, a spool, and an ARB. Only would need shafts, brakes, more fab time, and $5-6K :laughing: I have to rebuild the 14B anyway 🤔 :dumbass:
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I have a set of Spidertrax knuckles for sale... if you feel like spending $$$
 
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