Kingpin Solid keyed knuckles and arms..

frankenyoter

frankenyoter

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Who’s running them double shear and how did you accomplish that? Pics? I’ve only found one example so far online.


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Arms don’t line up with the knuckles. Is double shear on these overkill?

I’ve got them and planning to run 43s with full hydro and getting to the point of working through this.
 
@Shreddinlettuce , what you posted won’t party with my Solid keyed knuckles.

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The Solid arms don’t line up like the factory tie rod hole on the knuckle, it’s at an angle. I was focused on buying a strong knuckle and had no idea these were funky like that. Too deep into it now to change.
 
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Machine hole in the blank high steer arm that aligns with the OEM hole in the knuckle. Place heim wherever it fits and run 3/4" ID tube between it and the knuckle. I'll dig up some pics.
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Jody Treadway said:
Machine hole in the blank high steer arm that aligns with the OEM hole in the knuckle. Place heim wherever it fits and run 3/4" ID tube between it and the knuckle. I'll dig up some pics.View attachment 456950View attachment 456951
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Copy that and that’s what I was planning to do. The thing with the parts I have is the arm doesn’t align with the knuckle hole. It would all have to be a a big angle. Eyeballing it from above the arm doesn’t even cover the tie rod point on the knuckle.
 
I’ll see if I can snap a photo of it soon.

Double shear is the way to go, but with the keyed knuckles how much does that offset the double shear advantage?

I’m in it pretty deep already with Solid’s knuckle and keyed arms and it’s 6 bolt vs what factory 4.
 
Jody Treadway said:
Machine hole in the blank high steer arm that aligns with the OEM hole in the knuckle. Place heim wherever it fits and run 3/4" ID tube between it and the knuckle. I'll dig up some pics.View attachment 456950View attachment 456951
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Problem he has is the proprietary knuckles he has only fit a narrow high steer arm due to a raised key so the high steer arm will not have enough meat to make that hole Towards the tire side and his nuckle won’t fit the tmr high steer arm.


You could buy regular knuckles and the tmr arms and sell the solid axle knuckles best case, or trust the beefy keyway with single shear
 
frankenyoter said:
Copy that and that’s what I was planning to do. The thing with the parts I have is the arm doesn’t align with the knuckle hole. It would all have to be a a big angle. Eyeballing it from above the arm doesn’t even cover the tie rod point on the knuckle.
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The ones I had (still on it) were machined to allow double shear. Yours don't seem to be.
Like @Shreddinlettuce said, with the keyed design, it's over kill anyway.
 
Personally I would tap the arm to 3/4-16, run a 3/4 grade 8 through a captive high misalignments spacer, heim, regular misalignments spacer, then threaded into the knuckle. Torque to the recommended torque for 3/4-16, then put a stover type locknut on top of the high steer arm to make double sure it doesn’t loosen

The treads in the high steer arm would hold the load and the stover nut (interference fit, one time use for the nut and bolt so keep a spare) will make sure it doesn’t loosen. If you just put a bolt through a hole in the high steer arm it will wallow over time
 
I have my front and rear arms in double shear setup, but I bought the arms to accommodate this. The last set I got came from Artec and they’re billet aluminum. Very nice! I set mine up this way for the warm and fuzzy feeling knowing they won’t fail me. I also believe they’re overkill for regular trail use. What you already have WILL do the job. Spend that money somewhere else.
 
BigSouth said:
I have my front and rear arms in double shear setup, but I bought the arms to accommodate this. The last set I got came from Artec and their billet aluminum. Very nice! I set mine up this way for the warm and fuzzy feeling knowing they won’t fail me. I also believe they’re overkill for regular trail use. What you already have WILL do the job. Spend that money somewhere else.
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You have the Solid keyed knuckles? What I see available isn’t for the Solid knuckles.

One member messaged me about maybe welding onto the Solid arm. If I could get a node machined then welded and cut down in a machine shop it would be slick. They are super beefy keyed arms and probably won’t give me issues, but I’d have happily paid more for a keyed arm cut out of a bigger piece that would allow a double shear steering setup.
 
frankenyoter said:
You have the Solid keyed knuckles? What I see available isn’t for the Solid knuckles.

One member messaged me about maybe welding onto the Solid arm. If I could get a node machined then welded and cut down in a machine shop it would be slick. They are super beefy keyed arms and probably won’t give me issues, but I’d have happily paid more for a keyed arm cut out of a bigger piece that would allow a double shear steering setup.
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Yes, mine are SOLID and keyed.

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