Well after a few years of running the "home made" X-over steering I finally reached the limit of the stock arms and they started to crack at the stud holes, so I decided to get myself an early Christmas gift. I calld up Brandon at RIDES and had him get me a full PSC hydro kit. I got it all put on and took a few pics of the install.....
Pump


Steering valve and mount....



Tank...

 

I tried to make most of the stuff bolt on so I drilled and sleeved the front truss so I could bolt on the ram mount......



I cut the ram mount out of 1/4" alu. and bent it up in the press at work...



I also cut some gussets for the bottom of the plate and miged them on....

 

Once I got that all worked out and plumed I put on the new high steer arms from Marlin Crawler and made the tie rods...

I added some brake line mounts to the arms as well as cut down the pass. side arm



I got a Turtle head.

The ram ended up being offset to the driver side a little so the tie rods are different lengths...

 

Got the tie rods on and got every thing bolted up...



Went over to MUDPRO metal works and bent out a ram guard made out of 1.75" .1875 wall DOM and welded a flange to bolt the front face of the ram mount.....



Got that all welded up and put on.....




Let me know what yall think. Thanks. New guy here.

 

is that a custom fourlink or was that a kit? who did the work on thats nice!!

 

Thats pretty sweet man! I like the brake line holders, the aluminum tray and your mig AL welds, look pretty good too, I'm horrible at mig AL, I'll take a tig anyday...

Yeah four link up front is pretty interesting! how much lift is that and tire size?

 

No, not a kit. Thanks, I did all the fab work.

Thanks. I did all the MIG with a Miller 350P on pulse, it's pretty sweet to use. I dig TIG too but it was just quicker to do it that way. This is a pic of the fuel tank I built for it......






As far as lift height it's about 3" on 38.5s. I ended up sliding the front axle up 13" and the rear up 3" so I have a 112" WB with exactly 50/50 weight distribution from front to back. Here's a pic of some of the travel..... Oh and here's my build thread on my local forum. LINK

 

major props man, its tough to run a bead that long, especially in alum and still have it look good. Just started on your original thread, but its time to go to work...damn
sweet rig man