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Independent Rear Suspension Forum » The Ford IRS picture thread » 11/15/2013 12:23 pm

vernlee
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Well after open heart surgery, which believe me will knock the wind out of your sails, then my wife having
a stroke and heart surgery, I'm back working on the suspension for the mustang, I hope these pictures
load up O.K.
Vern
 

Independent Rear Suspension Forum » hey is it just me or does this IRS set up look a little convoluted?? » 4/09/2011 1:32 pm

vernlee
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Someone got them a new bender to play with,and didn't know when to stop 

Independent Rear Suspension Forum » IRS up date » 2/18/2011 11:31 am

vernlee
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http://img291.imageshack.us/g/irssetup002.jpg/
Daze, maybe you can put these pictures up for me ? All tacked welded in place,I'll take it out finish welding , then make and install my upper and ower control arms
Vern

Independent Rear Suspension Forum » Daze car » 2/08/2011 4:18 pm

vernlee
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Daze,I have searched your site from top to bottom looking for a picture of your car with the IRS in stalled,am I missing it ? or don't you have one up ?
Vern

Independent Rear Suspension Forum » I haven't seen any updates on every one else's projects Let us know... » 2/08/2011 1:27 pm

vernlee
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Well after calling on every axle and drive shaft shop from coast to coast to get my T bird half shafts either shortend (which every single person told me don't do it they will break on you )or have them resplined ( can't respline T birds )Then deciding to change to U joints and drive shafts now finding out the yokes with splines will cost me $1600.00, I said the heck with it I'll just buy new ones, so I called this Co.to buy a pair of FFR pin drive shafts, after he tells me I have to buy from him or another dealer because FFR won't sell me any, I thought I'm going to call FFR and find out why,So I did, they said no problem,$110.00 apiece, Yep, bought both sides, heavy duty shafts new CV joints,complete ready to install for $220.00 + shiping,Why I didn't just call these guys 3 months ago I'll never know,sorry for the long read,but my axle problems are behind me now,and maybe this will save somebody else alot of time and money,Full steam ahead 
Vern

Independent Rear Suspension Forum » spring weight » 1/24/2011 11:47 am

vernlee
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Daze since the jag irs has two coil over's on each side,what is your spring lbs,s
is cut in half ? since there is two. I'm thinking of putting two per side on my
T-bird irs, #1 the cool factor # 2 I would hope it would stop or at least minimize wheel hop.I'm also trying to find a place to buy or have made some outer
axle stubs that will fit my ford 8.8,I would much rather have U joints and a drive shaft rather then CV joints,If you have any info on these axle stubs please
post it, thank you

Vern

Independent Rear Suspension Forum » I haven't seen any updates on every one else's projects Let us know... » 1/14/2011 10:14 am

vernlee
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She's not much to look at right now,but it's a diamond in the ruff,I'll put some sides on it and paint it up, then it should look pretty good, the main thing is it works like a dream and I made it myself.

Vern

Independent Rear Suspension Forum » I haven't seen any updates on every one else's projects Let us know... » 1/12/2011 12:20 pm

vernlee
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Daze, I'm back at it,had to take a break from the IRS, we got so busy at work I haven't had time, plus,I wanted to build a cradle out of tubing for the irs unit so I had to take the time to build myself a tubing bender,My bender consist of a steering box from a Mack truck, power steering pump run by a 220 electric motor, and I bought a 1 1/4 die from JD square,this bender works great,bends 1 1/14 .120 wall D.O.M. like it was rubber,I'll be updating on the IRS.

Vern

Independent Rear Suspension Forum » Jag IRS » 11/02/2010 12:57 pm

vernlee
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rocklord, I calle  the guy  again, he does not know the year, or gear ratio,by inboard
brakes if you mean disc next to the differental it has them.If your interested I'll give you his phone #
Vern

Independent Rear Suspension Forum » Jag IRS » 11/01/2010 4:56 pm

vernlee
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Daze, What cad program do you use ?

Independent Rear Suspension Forum » Jag IRS » 11/01/2010 4:55 pm

vernlee
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Tramp , Good luck with your project,I'm sure Daze will be able to supply you with some needed info.

Independent Rear Suspension Forum » Jag IRS » 10/31/2010 6:09 am

vernlee
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Daze, Then I would have two cars thats not getting done.

Independent Rear Suspension Forum » Jag IRS » 10/30/2010 1:02 pm

vernlee
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Guys, I found a complete jag irs for sale a few hours from my house here in Michigan, the guy wants $200.00 for it,If I hadn't already started with the T-bird unit I would give it a try,I'm really tempted
to buy it anyway,But thats all I need,something else setting around waiting to be worked on,The price did not sound bad to me,Just thought I would let you know.
Vern

Independent Rear Suspension Forum » My T-bird IRS » 10/24/2010 3:34 pm

vernlee
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77 amc, Good luck with the lathe, That's what I tried with carbide tooling,If you take a .002 cut at a time, in a week or two you might get down where you need to be,I did manage to true the ends up after cutting the shafts into with a cutting wheel,even that was a slow process,I then drilled a half inch hole in the end and inserted a 1/2 '' peice of drill rod about a inch deep, this helped keep the shaft true for welding,now I will put a 1-5/16 X .109 wall sleeve over it and weld,I've come to the conclusion if it breaks it breaks, I'll take my chanches,I'll send pics when it done.
Vern

Independent Rear Suspension Forum » My T-bird IRS » 10/19/2010 4:14 pm

vernlee
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Daze,I guess that is what I'll do,First I'm going to anneal the shafts,then I can cut them,put a nice deep bevel on them,slip a sleeve over the shaft weld together, slide sleeve in place weld sleeve in place, and I think I will mill some slots in the sleeve first for some heathly rossette welds,then have the shafts hardened at a local heat treating shop,I don't see why this wouldn't work, after all this will be a light weight car,and I'm not going to be racing with slicks or anything,If I wasn't so poverty stricken  this wouldn't be such an issue. I'll keep you posted
Vern

Independent Rear Suspension Forum » My T-bird IRS » 10/19/2010 2:40 pm

vernlee
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O.K. here's the skinny-I went to a drive shaft shop today,And he said that what I wanted to do would work no problem at all,Yes I can change from CV joints to U joints, BUT, the cost would be around $500.00 plus alot of labor on my part to prep( grind or turn down ) the tulip for welding and fitting the yokes to,So this idea is out the window  I can have two new haft shafts made for under the 500 bucks and that includes any shiping cost, and no labor for me other then reassembly which I would have with either idea,So new or welded shafts is where I'm at now.
Vern

Independent Rear Suspension Forum » My T-bird IRS » 10/19/2010 9:35 am

vernlee
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Yes, I cut and welded to length for mock up purposes,If I can't find a suitable fix for this,welding might be my only choice.
Vern

Independent Rear Suspension Forum » My T-bird IRS » 10/19/2010 4:34 am

vernlee
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irstang, interesting point about the half shafts haveing to move in and out , I didn't consider that, But didn't the corvette use a system like I want to do ?
Yes some guys have welded a tube around the shaft after shorting and have had some luck, but others have had catastrophic results,Clearence I don't think would be a problem,I'm running  5.4 dohc with a 5 speed,not planning on drag racing, just want to do burn outs as my heart desires  just after a nice performing street ride.Didn't the corvette have upper and lower control arms with U joints on the half shafts ??
Vern

Independent Rear Suspension Forum » My T-bird IRS » 10/18/2010 4:28 pm

vernlee
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Daze, I need 2 1/2 inches cut from each side,Sometime this week I'm going to a drive shaft shop near me to see about changing to U joints, or at least get some price ideas. the more I think about U joints the more I like the idea.
Vern

Independent Rear Suspension Forum » My T-bird IRS » 10/18/2010 10:05 am

vernlee
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Daze. I just sent you some pics of the t-bird cv joints and shafts,the cv joint is held to the differental by a cir clip kinda like a C clip,but I guess you could say the thing is held in place by the control arms not allowing the half shafts to move either in or out, the outer cv joint just pulls off the axle shafts, the differental side is held in by the cir clips and come apart real hard,I hope the pics make it a little clearer, If you want to post the pics feel free, or pic and choose,
Vern

Independent Rear Suspension Forum » My T-bird IRS » 10/18/2010 4:26 am

vernlee
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Daze / Irstang - 99 and 9/10 of the people I have talked to say DO NOT WELD half shafts from the the t-bird irs, they will not hold up because of the torsion bar that they are,I figure they have been thru it so I might as well learn from there experience,I'll figure something out, I just don't know what is right now.If it had U joints and shafts I wouldn't hesitate cutting them,I even thought about converting them to U joints,But I'm sure I wouldn't be ahead of the game cost wise.
Vern

Independent Rear Suspension Forum » My T-bird IRS » 10/17/2010 4:25 pm

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Well I'm getting frustrated,I got my unit disassembled which was a learning curve, found a place that would respline and shorten axles,But now I find out my half shafts are to small to respline,I'm just not ready to spend $500.00 on new ones,checking into ford Explorer front shafts now to see if I can have these resplined,What a dirty greasy stinkin job tearing these units down. Once I get this axle problem solved I'll start on the cradle mock up.
Vern

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