9" housing strengthening recommondations?

[fordnut77]

What are some of the things have you done to help your 9" survive? Anybody of you use one of these from Jegs?

http://www.jegs.com/i/JEGS-Performan...60190/10002/-1

[Daddy4zack]

Re: 9" housing strengthening recommondations?

Proud Papa has a thread on this.. he has built a few.

[welndmn]

Re: 9" housing strengthening recommondations?

Yes, but you don't want that one.
You want one that goes from wheel bearing to wheel bearing.
Places like shaffer off road will torchmate out the truss for you that goes from bearing to bearing.

[ProudPapa]

Re: 9" housing strengthening recommondations?

Mine ended up being about 1-1.5 from the bearings.

[EL Rojo]

Re: 9" housing strengthening recommondations?

so when you weld one on you stitch it for a bit and let the whole thing cool and then stitch some more?

[ProudPapa]

Re: 9" housing strengthening recommondations?

Yes, medium heat stitch welds about 2" each. Took me about 4-5hours to complete.

[welndmn]

Re: 9" housing strengthening recommondations?

Every 9 inch I've ever seen was bent too.
I preload them by chaining them to a big ass I beam, then I just weld away.

[kawikevin250]

Re: 9" housing strengthening recommondations?

I would like to see some pics of your 9's all done with your truss' s done.

[daves]

Re: 9" housing strengthening recommondations?

Here's mine. Not all done

[tortuga]

Re: 9" housing strengthening recommondations?

I love the directions - " Stop every once in a while and check for bending " - doesn't say much about what to do if you find it!

[ProudPapa]

Re: 9" housing strengthening recommondations?

The pics of mine are under "bronco projects" listed as Latest Creation.

[blwngsket]

Re: 9" housing strengthening recommondations?

Here's mine. Stopped every couple of inches also.

http://www.norcalbroncos.com/forum/s...&postcount=443

[720Racer]

Re: 9" housing strengthening recommondations?

Every 9 inch I've ever seen was bent too. I preload them by chaining them to a big ass I beam, then I just weld away.

I put my D60 on my trailer, on jackstands and used a ratchet binder to preload it when I welded on the truss. It ended up straighter than when I pulled it from the donor truck.

[fordnut77]

Re: 9" housing strengthening recommondations?

Yes, but you don't want that one.
You want one that goes from wheel bearing to wheel bearing.
Places like shaffer off road will torchmate out the truss for you that goes from bearing to bearing.

I don't have a cool linked bronco, so what do you do about the u-bolts? Leave a slot I assume?

[kawikevin250]

Re: 9" housing strengthening recommondations?

Most hot rod guys run a truss or brace, what ever you want to call it, across the back of there 9"s, not the top like a link mounting point. You can go from end to end that way & still have no problems with the spring mounts.