I do remember that white yota
Thats exactly what I did for mine -- use conduit to mock the bends and length. But see if you can get Midas or another exhaust shop to do the bends for you. They typically have hydraulic benders as long as my Honda Civic and can easily bend the entire universe if needed. I befriended a guy at the Midas close to my house and gave him i think $10 to bend my Explorer's panhard in 3 places (the third bend is perpendicular from the plane of the other two):
Sections' arms are of course from Sky Manufacturing and the knuckles are from Rock Equipment .. "Super Boy Howdy Fabricated Knuckles" (lol wtf kind of name is that)
the masterFabricator2006 (wolf) can make anything
But if you want to buy them, here is one from A&A manufacturing for ~$3.50 each (3/16" Steel, 1/2" Holes, Fits 3" Tubing), slice it in half and you get a pair out of each
http://www.aa-mfg.com/pdshop/shop/item.asp?itemid=485
Maybe I will just do the steering the cheapy way first and see how it holds up. If it becomes a rock bite victim THEN I'll get those Boy Howdy knuckles (I thought Section was making that name up...! 
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: I'm planing on picking up some conduit in the next few days to mock up the steering, panhard and bumper(s) (for my truck and morgan)I do remember that white yota
Thats exactly what I did for mine -- use conduit to mock the bends and length. But see if you can get Midas or another exhaust shop to do the bends for you. They typically have hydraulic benders as long as my Honda Civic and can easily bend the entire universe if needed. I befriended a guy at the Midas close to my house and gave him i think $10 to bend my Explorer's panhard in 3 places (the third bend is perpendicular from the plane of the other two):
the masterFabricator2006 (wolf) can make anything
But if you want to buy them, here is one from A&A manufacturing for ~$3.50 each (3/16" Steel, 1/2" Holes, Fits 3" Tubing), slice it in half and you get a pair out of each
: but I do have a A&A catalog sitting on my workbenchI dont know what hours I am going to be working during the week but if your bored and looking for something to do just give me a call, there is more then enough little things to be worked on (or bsing while looking at the truck
)Thanks a lot, IZ! I think I will order two of those suckers to make life easier. Wolf's a fantastic fabricator, but only if you can get him motivated to weld in the first place, and it takes ideas from all of you to get things completed because neither one of us has ever had to make parts for this sort of swap before
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You're wheeling the golden nugget for New Year's, right??
Hmmm, eeeenteresting! I'm literally learning something new every day with this swap, lol. Now Jeff, you do realize.... as soon as Morgan is driveable, I'm going to be up there begging for sliders?
D) and now we have to modify the shroud... stainless steel line, temperature-showing radiator cap and 90degree elbow are on their way, as is the power steering cooler. If you're doing something similar I'm told it's almost a necessity to run some kind of cooler on the return line to the ps pump because the stress of turning such large tires will quickly blow it out. Things left to do: : Sorry for the crappy cell phone pics, I'll take better ones when I head back down to finish the brakes this week. Definitely have to put fender flares and some lawn edging on to keep the po-po's happy about the tires though, lol. 
I really like the wheel / tire combo
From what I've heard, 17"s will make quite a difference with on road stability.. granted, you sacrifice a bit of sidewall when it comes to rock crawling, but I think everything will turn out pretty well.:
Thank you, I do too
I sincerely hope they hold up well, to say the least...! It's an expensive theory I'm testing here, I can't wait to be able to actually DRIVE the damn thing to see if I'm right..
