Funco4JM
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Are the Tatum knuckles set up for a Uniball lower or you changing that to a heim with misalignment spacers?
My 2006 Wuerth Motorsports Build
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His picture shows uniball bottom and heim top.
Funco4JM
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Correct, but the knuckle looks to be set up for heim and misalignment spacers on the bottom. The arm is uniball.
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Yes the Tatum spindles are meant for a lower uniball and upper heim. the Black Widow, Spyder, Evolution etc are all that way as well. The spacing was to keep my geometry all the same. appears to be 0 bumpsteer!
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Few misc updates from the weekend:
One of the spindles was anodized black. it had been used by Tatum at a show on display years ago, and wanted to take the anodizing off. So went to town on it with a can of oven cleaner and took it most of the way off!
Also got some bolts and cut them down to right length to ensure everything was shanked correctly and installed the 2" hallow snouts:
Here's my spacing solution for the lower uniball to spindle:
For the upper i used one of my existing misalignments and welded a 3/8" SS spacer from Mcmaster onto it. For the bottom spacer i found a misalignment at Foddrill that made it fit perfectly into the spindle! If it works it works LOL
One of the spindles was anodized black. it had been used by Tatum at a show on display years ago, and wanted to take the anodizing off. So went to town on it with a can of oven cleaner and took it most of the way off!
Also got some bolts and cut them down to right length to ensure everything was shanked correctly and installed the 2" hallow snouts:
Here's my spacing solution for the lower uniball to spindle:
For the upper i used one of my existing misalignments and welded a 3/8" SS spacer from Mcmaster onto it. For the bottom spacer i found a misalignment at Foddrill that made it fit perfectly into the spindle! If it works it works LOL
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Got the chassis all disassembled for the most part and started adding reinforcements. The only area I am reinforcing is the pivot tube area. other than that, this chassis has held up incredibly.
In addition to adding reinforcements, I am trying to clean up some of my old welds from years ago when i was MIG blasting with too high of wire speed!! LOL.
The weld quality on these cars was very good, so I want to be sure i keep that standard!
Something about re-fab's and add ons to existing chassis always gets me excited! I figured i would post detailed pics to show full weld/fab transparency! I'm having a tough time going over some of these old welds i did (mainly the downtubes that attach to the bottom bars on the engine cage) so thinking about covering with a gusset or fish plate. Open to any input!
Still not a pro by any means, but cool to see improvements over the years.
I've weighed everything that I've added to the car, and it will be roughly 15 lbs added to the chassis!
Here are a few work in progress photos! still a few more things to do!
In addition to adding reinforcements, I am trying to clean up some of my old welds from years ago when i was MIG blasting with too high of wire speed!! LOL.
The weld quality on these cars was very good, so I want to be sure i keep that standard!
Something about re-fab's and add ons to existing chassis always gets me excited! I figured i would post detailed pics to show full weld/fab transparency! I'm having a tough time going over some of these old welds i did (mainly the downtubes that attach to the bottom bars on the engine cage) so thinking about covering with a gusset or fish plate. Open to any input!
Still not a pro by any means, but cool to see improvements over the years.
I've weighed everything that I've added to the car, and it will be roughly 15 lbs added to the chassis!
Here are a few work in progress photos! still a few more things to do!
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Coming along nicely!
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Thanks Jerry! Seems like this is really the only weak point of these cars. Gotta finish the reinforcements, then the windshield and itll be ready for powder!
