Simple'72CJ
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So this has been an on-going project for the last few months and I finally have most of the parts made. As the title states it's a complete bastard child of a housing and people are gonna raise their eyebrows as to why I did a lot of things 
What sparked this entire thing is that the current 609 in my jeep that I built came out too narrow and I had band-aided it with wheel spacers to get the right track width. This was all fine and dandy, but the narrow housing width (60" WMS) coupled with the KP outers forced me into limiting my up travel significantly. Straight up and down was no issue, but as soon as you began to twist it up the KP cap on the Solid Industries steering arm wanted to eat the coilover. Looking back I could've packaged things better and achieved more clearance, but I was dumb at the time and even more impatient.
Now we are present day and full of lots of fresh ideas that only make sense to me probably
I wanted to go ball joint to free up space around the outer, but I wanted to remain 5x5.5 pattern since I'm a jeep purest haha As everyone knows 05+ is the way to go with the big joints and 35 spline stubs. The issue I ran into with the 05+ is that the bearing itself is too large and its not physically possible to run a 5x5.5 pattern. So, just go 99-04 inner C and run a modified unit bearing to fit my needs right? The 1480 joints don't bother me and I could always upgrade to RCV's or whatever. However, I had to be difficult and make things more complicated than they needed to be. The 05+ has more inclination angle at 12deg where a KP is 7deg which means way less scrub. Yeah sure you're not gonna really feel that with full hydro, but its still cool to think about. Secondly, a hybrid knuckle that uses the 05+ C geometry but a 99-04 unit bearing would be modular to where you could bolt the knuckle on a stock Super Duty housing and be able to run a pattern other than 8 lug.
Disclaimer right out of the gate!!! This was not intended to be the end all be all, most bomb-proof setup. It's checking all my boxes as far as needs and the 1480 joints have not let me down in the past so sacrificing the bolt pattern solely to get the big 1550s didn't make sense. Anyways, on to some pics!! Hopefully sprinkle more photos in as I get them transferred off my old phone.
What sparked this entire thing is that the current 609 in my jeep that I built came out too narrow and I had band-aided it with wheel spacers to get the right track width. This was all fine and dandy, but the narrow housing width (60" WMS) coupled with the KP outers forced me into limiting my up travel significantly. Straight up and down was no issue, but as soon as you began to twist it up the KP cap on the Solid Industries steering arm wanted to eat the coilover. Looking back I could've packaged things better and achieved more clearance, but I was dumb at the time and even more impatient.Now we are present day and full of lots of fresh ideas that only make sense to me probably
I wanted to go ball joint to free up space around the outer, but I wanted to remain 5x5.5 pattern since I'm a jeep purest haha As everyone knows 05+ is the way to go with the big joints and 35 spline stubs. The issue I ran into with the 05+ is that the bearing itself is too large and its not physically possible to run a 5x5.5 pattern. So, just go 99-04 inner C and run a modified unit bearing to fit my needs right? The 1480 joints don't bother me and I could always upgrade to RCV's or whatever. However, I had to be difficult and make things more complicated than they needed to be. The 05+ has more inclination angle at 12deg where a KP is 7deg which means way less scrub. Yeah sure you're not gonna really feel that with full hydro, but its still cool to think about. Secondly, a hybrid knuckle that uses the 05+ C geometry but a 99-04 unit bearing would be modular to where you could bolt the knuckle on a stock Super Duty housing and be able to run a pattern other than 8 lug.Disclaimer right out of the gate!!! This was not intended to be the end all be all, most bomb-proof setup. It's checking all my boxes as far as needs and the 1480 joints have not let me down in the past so sacrificing the bolt pattern solely to get the big 1550s didn't make sense. Anyways, on to some pics!! Hopefully sprinkle more photos in as I get them transferred off my old phone.
