Time finally became available on the CNC. We had them hard anodized.
We bolted it all together and setup the front end with -1.5 camber and the tires are inside the flares - we gained 1.375 front track. I am happy about this since we are running a 225 front tire and I have been concerned some about tripping over the front. You can see we put the front leg in double shear. I had the stock arms measured on a CMM some time ago. Interestingly the new arms ended up 1" longer to one thousands of an inch. I was surprised by this because we did not approach from this view. Instead, maintaining the tires inside, we as-built to the best fit of the components.
We could not use our modified neck for the fuel cap. There was just no way to get the vent line connected. There is not enough clearance between the inner glass and the top of the tank. We pulled the tank and had a full length return line welded in on the driver side. We machined a new straight thru neck for the cap.
I am really happy to have the front arms done. We used the front cross member for datum and shimmed the displacement from the cross member to the center of the rod ends to the same spec as stock.
We set and reset the rear diff assembly more than several times. It is amazingly square to the chassis, but unfortunately rotated down 2 degrees with respect to engine level. We did not check the machining of the dif housing, but I have a feeling this is where it is. We made new "cradle to cross member" brackets which allowed us to rotate the cradle up 2 degrees. I realize this will reduce the anti-squat and I have not studied yet if there are other mechanical problems. If anyone can advise, please do.
I have given some thought to machining a new lower cradle tray with no anti-squat and adjustable pickup points. This would dictate that the rear upright rotates normal in the transverse plane and would allow optimization of the rear RC when changing ride heights.
I took some rough measurements and ran the rear thru a suspension analyzer and was very surprised how good the rear roll center looks. I still can't get the dimensions in the book to work on a 90" wheel base without binding the rear rod ends against the rear of the cradle. Now that the front is located we can really square and finalize the rear. The trailing rods will be what they will.
Lastly we bled the clutch - unbelievable
