Castor Plates installation
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 7:00 pm
I am about to fit castor plates to my Pootrol..... anybody got advice on how to set them up properly? or a couple of pictures..... would make life easier
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too late..... got them already don't quite have the spondooly for them with the money it's going to cost for thge engine swap..... if need be, i'll weld the bastards into place.Hoonz wrote:don't do it get drop boxes!
is it beneficial to space the radius arms forward 15mm?? i'm told this helps keep the 35's from scrubbing on the back af the front guards under flex.... i was going to machine some up and fit them while i had the radius arms unboltedHoonz wrote:ahh ok .. well welding them in place will work best ... other wise they do move around when flexing up and the holes flog out ...
hand brake on undo the arms ... drill the holes ... get a jack to move the pinion up and bolt in the new plates .. pretty ease
Yup... it does helpRoeDao wrote:is it beneficial to space the radius arms forward 15mm?? i'm told this helps keep the 35's from scrubbing on the back af the front guards under flex.... i was going to machine some up and fit them while i had the radius arms unboltedHoonz wrote:ahh ok .. well welding them in place will work best ... other wise they do move around when flexing up and the holes flog out ...
hand brake on undo the arms ... drill the holes ... get a jack to move the pinion up and bolt in the new plates .. pretty ease
I didnt design them to be welded into place. They`re best bolted on and they shouldnt flog out unless you install them poorly. I designed them in 1999 when the Gu ute first came out, as a bolt-on fit for Patrols, that way you could take them off, return the suspension to its originality. There were many welded on dodgy looking units at the time. It was a good idea at the time and since then several companies have copied this castor plate design, so much for design rules in Aust. When in Oz = just copy it.well welding them in place will work best ... other wise they do move around when flexing up and the holes flog out
every set of castor plates i've seen after being used have been flogged outBentzook wrote:I didnt design them to be welded into place. They`re best bolted on and they shouldnt flog out unless you install them poorly. I designed them in 1999 when the Gu ute first came out, as a bolt-on fit for Patrols, that way you could take them off, return the suspension to its originality. There were many welded on dodgy looking units at the time. It was a good idea at the time and since then several companies have copied this castor plate design, so much for design rules in Aust. When in Oz = just copy it.well welding them in place will work best ... other wise they do move around when flexing up and the holes flog out
Anyway their best installed as bolt on, but if you need more travel you probly bought the wrong 4x in the first place. Or spent all your $$$ on a motor swap.
Thank you..... that explains it adequately i'm going to fit them tomorrow arvonalucas wrote:Basically to install the castor plates, you firstly remove the rear bolt from the radius arm (or just remove the arm entirely if you want to drill them).
Once you have figured out how the plates go (half washers on the inside and there is a nick out of the inner one near the pumkin) bolt them in through the rear hole and swing them up till the half washer hits the bottom of the factory radius arm bracket. At this point you should be able to mark your holes.
Remove plates (and arm if not already) and drill holes :-)
Then refit the radius arm, rear bolt first, then front bolt, then plate to bracket bolt with crush tube and tighten. Check again a few times over the next few weeks to ensure it hasn't worked loose.
Don't have any photos handy at the moment sorry.
i have a right angle air drillats4x4dotcom wrote:Hope you have a right angle drill
yes they do.... they are Tough Dog 5 degree plateschina wrote:just a quick question, does the plate have three (3) holes already in them?
china wrote:so whats the drill for?
Thats why *shrug* beats the piss out of me...... i'm just fitting these things blindats4x4dotcom wrote:Hope you have a right angle drill
well that will make life even easierchina wrote:with mine put the back bolt in first then flip them up put front bolt in, then bolt radias arm to plate, it was 30 min job, i didnt need to take arm out or drill holes.
give yourself an uppercut 30minutes??????????? by the time we frigged around getting the holes drilled, the diff rotated (worked out it was much easier when we loosened the panhard rod ) put the spacers in behind the radius arms... it took us about 3 and a half hours....... thankfully we did it over a mechanics pit.... would have been a royal pain in the ass on a concrete driveway!! I doubt they will come l;oose in a hurry.... Coey was fair swinging off a bloody great breaker bar to tighten them.china wrote:with mine put the back bolt in first then flip them up put front bolt in, then bolt radias arm to plate, it was 30 min job, i didnt need to take arm out or drill holes.
the spacers were piece of piss....... took all of 10 minutes including unbolting and rebolting the arms...... and dude...... take one of these it was a light hearted digchina wrote:like i said before mine bolted in the existing holes, not my problem if yours didnt, and i also didnt say i fitted spacers cos u didnt ask.