So, I love my IDI, its everything I hoped for so far, and it does its jobs perfectly. My only real complaint is the turning radius. I have a '90 ext cab long bed, and I live on a narrow dead end street. If any cars are parked in the street, I dont have enough room to back my trailers into my driveway. I either have to wait for my neighbor across the street to leave, or I have to unhitch and use my jeep to back the trailers in.
I came up with 3 possible solutions:
1. Grind the steering stops so the wheels turn a few degrees farther. Did it on an old jeep, dont know if its doable on the 250.
2. Short bed conversion. Z cut and fishplate right behind the cab looks easy enough. I think redoing the lines would be the hardest part. And I think this would require giving up the dual tanks :/
3. 4 wheel steering. I could build a center diff LP steering D60 easily, but I think the cost of the hydraulics would far exceed a bed swap.
Anyway, im leaning towards 1 and 2 right now. Do you guys have any other ideas?
I came up with 3 possible solutions:
1. Grind the steering stops so the wheels turn a few degrees farther. Did it on an old jeep, dont know if its doable on the 250.
2. Short bed conversion. Z cut and fishplate right behind the cab looks easy enough. I think redoing the lines would be the hardest part. And I think this would require giving up the dual tanks :/
3. 4 wheel steering. I could build a center diff LP steering D60 easily, but I think the cost of the hydraulics would far exceed a bed swap.
Anyway, im leaning towards 1 and 2 right now. Do you guys have any other ideas?