coachgeo
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Got the new rear Intermediate axle temporary bolted in. Tweaking things for best overall alignment of drive shaft tranny to powerdivider.
Ran into something my fabricator is finding odd.... In all his experience from standard one ton trucks to race car chassis building... the straight line thru the engine crank to tail end of tranny at the u joint is usually set at 3 degree downslope compared to the chassis. Well on this truck it is a one degree up slope. This could be normal for this truck being that it is a much larger than an one ton truck??? orrrrrrrr.... something is amiss??? Maybe engine mounts sagging pulling engine down and sloping things behind it up?? They don't look terribly bad... but then what is good?
Here is the engine mounts
![CATmountDrvr.jpg CATmountDrvr.jpg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/511/511165-824664dbe0958cbce7c6a557c90308fd.jpg)
Driver
![CATmountPssnger.jpg CATmountPssnger.jpg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/511/511166-90196354d77b63e3540f88f71e3c50ad.jpg)
Passenger.
what is ya'lls thoughts?
Ran into something my fabricator is finding odd.... In all his experience from standard one ton trucks to race car chassis building... the straight line thru the engine crank to tail end of tranny at the u joint is usually set at 3 degree downslope compared to the chassis. Well on this truck it is a one degree up slope. This could be normal for this truck being that it is a much larger than an one ton truck??? orrrrrrrr.... something is amiss??? Maybe engine mounts sagging pulling engine down and sloping things behind it up?? They don't look terribly bad... but then what is good?
Here is the engine mounts
![CATmountDrvr.jpg CATmountDrvr.jpg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/511/511165-824664dbe0958cbce7c6a557c90308fd.jpg)
Driver
![CATmountPssnger.jpg CATmountPssnger.jpg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/511/511166-90196354d77b63e3540f88f71e3c50ad.jpg)
Passenger.
what is ya'lls thoughts?