Hey Kyle glad to see you on here. Folks Kyle is so ready for a set of these arms he preordered weeks ago. Its people like him, Shawny B and MTMZ that have pushed me to work on these instead of putting them off until I got caught up.
Anyway heres the latest info...(Kyle read on man...)
Tonight I worked out the tubes for the coil overs. The tubes from end to end will be 5" with a 1.250" gap along the arm centerline, that will hold the coilover. Thats the line from the center of the bushing to the center of the balljoint cup. anyway the bolt will be 6" long. I know thats long but thats what it will take. Heres a drawing in paint of the bushing on the end and also of the tubes for the coilover.
the black is the poly bushings, the red is the bushing tube and the dark blus is the tabs that will go up to the frame. the light blue is the coil over tubes. The yellow is the stock frame bushing. heres the pic of the same arm with purple as the bag plate. the cuts across the ends will be curved in the final version. I have it in the list to be cut at work.
Kyle as soon as I have the bag plates Ill get them ready. I have to finish some bushings for Shawny Bs rear independent setup and then Im taking them and these arms out to his place. I will then test fit the arm, double check the bag placement and also make templates for the tabs that will hold the end bushing (shown in red above). I will then draw the plates in CAD, get them cut and send yours to you.
MTMZ yours will be much easier. Ill just have to get the strut rod tabs cut or send some universal ones and go from there.
I will be making the match to this arm and one more set this week to satisfy the one set for Kyle and the set for MTMZ. I have others interested and anyone else thats interested let me know ASAP as Im about to order bushings for these.
Id like to build several sets at once but not until I know these are right. Now I do know they will fit the truck since I have the stock lowqer here. all I need to confirm is the camber angles being acceptable and make the bushing templates.
I dont need to test drive these on a truck because I am within parameters of the stock arms, these are stronger and I have made tube arms for many different vehicles before and know what needs to do what. ok so all that said.... any questions??
thanks for reading all this...
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