d44 front radius arm design

GotWood

GotWood

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parallel four link with a pan hard bar? I think maybe that fellow should have just fabbed the whole housing and all. I think we met at the Flats. I was in the only Ranger attending I believe. I'm gathering parts for my four link frt. I lenghtened my stock arms and ran class 3 tractor joints on the pivot points and left the rubber bushing area alone, with polyurethane bushings from James Duff that are degreed to help rotate the pinion and steering where I wanted them. Mine are around 8 inches over stock.
 
Yea that was me that stopped you. This looks like a cool design but heavy.
 
That is some sweet ass fab work! But, instead of the parallel(ish) four link, I've always wanted to do Cage Offroad radius arms. (Which is apparently closed, and is now Busted Knuckle Garage. I guess??) Pretty much same at axle end, but not as much ground clearence loss at the frame end.
 
you going to run coils, coil overs or air shocks?.

My set up runs a fabricated mount that incorperates the coil mounts and my shocks. In affect it raised my shock mount up and give me a little more lift over the factory coil bucket. I threaded mechanical tubing to match the stock threads on the arms. After tightening these on the arms both sides were gussetted with 1/4 flatbar. The mechanical tube give me the surface to mount the tractor size end links. I think the bolt is I1 inch or so in diameter, been a few years since I done em up. I've considered redoing the ends with something more modern like a weld on johnny joint or poly bushing.

Some peolpe like to run whats called a wristed radius arm set up for more travel. It works well but tranfers all the torque load to the stock style arm. With really big power tires and traction arms get broke or housing spin on the tubes.

I kept mine simple.
 
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