Been sheltering in the workshop today. Got the front panhard rod done. I wanted to make it adjustable on the vehicle like the back one. However, not possible with what I have in my set up. The rod is quite short and once cut won't pass through the headstock to allow both ends to be machined. So I had to compromise really and make it a single thread adjuster.
Given the proximity of the diff pan, you can't really put the adjuster at one end either, so a central cut was necessary
My idea was to make a piece that would slip onto the cut end, sweated in place but not before I'd threaded the other end. This meant that all I have to do was clean up the cut end which didn't require it going in the lathe
Then the other end was threaded 30mm x 2.5
As the other cut end was straight, I could get that in the lathe to thread it no problem.
That screwed in nicely with no slop. I added a lock nut next.
Here's the polished up adjuster section. The two detail rings that you can just see are the two internal ends of the bored out sections.
With one end shortened, I got the new rod to 810mm so that it would fit a standard 80 not just a lifted one.
I might have them blasted an coated. Yellow might look snazzy.