Just like these. The brackets I bought are 3 inches wide so I have plenty of room to spin the heim when I pull the bolt.
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79 K5 Prerunner "Lucy"
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Just like these. The brackets I bought are 3 inches wide so I have plenty of room to spin the heim when I pull the bolt.
I like your design but at this point I am just keeping it simple as I can, I got caught up in the complexity. When I should have just left it alone. Technically I should be able to set my ride height caster and forget about it, I'd rather worry about my track bar and steering geometry instead of these arms. I'll fix them later if it doesn't work out.
Ok, was just throwing it out there. Are you going to use heavier wall tube or larger diameter for the lower or just same stuff as the upper?
It's 4130 .120 and will be trussed. It's gonna be strong.
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Yea seriously that garnered the most comments from friends so far lol If I had known I would have requested american steel.
Just an suggestion. Using .120 wall is fine but it will dent easily. I would cut some other tube in half and weld it to your bottom tube. It doesn't matter if your not gonna rockcrawl. Unless your sand only the chances of smacking that lower on a rock or even some ground are high.
.120 tube will dent pretty easily
.120 tube will dent pretty easily
What he said. Going up to .25 wall vs .120 wall isn't that much in price. probably 20 bucks difference.
Sorry.. this size tube is 13k higher rated in yield. Its stronger than 2' .250.. Dom
I don't want to have to double the weight.
I don't want to have to double the weight.
It's .120 wall chromemoly, that is some tough stuff. 
I wouldn't be worried one bit unless you plan to bash it on some rocks.
Although maybe chinese chromemoly is no better than american 1026.
I'm with you, I would prefer the thinner chromemoly vs the thicker regular stuff. Less weight is worth it.
I wouldn't be worried one bit unless you plan to bash it on some rocks.
Although maybe chinese chromemoly is no better than american 1026.
I'm with you, I would prefer the thinner chromemoly vs the thicker regular stuff. Less weight is worth it.
Lol woah woah woah hey now!!
And I would have to hit my xfercase also on that type of impact also because it's right there as well..
It's .120 wall chromemoly, that is some tough stuff.
I wouldn't be worried one bit unless you plan to bash it on some rocks.
Although maybe chinese chromemoly is no better than american 1026.
I'm with you, I would prefer the thinner chromemoly vs the thicker regular stuff. Less weight is worth it.
I've seen the spectrometer results of that. Lol yes it has chrome and moly in it, but not at the right percentage.
Yea as soon as I saw that it made me nervous.. We'll see if it holds up. I guess if it survives the first air to air landing were good right!
I'll be the odd man why not just do aluminum?
Nate ran a single bent radius arm on Oprah last summer and some this year. It was jumped and didn't brake or bend. Not saying it wouldn't eventually, but it worked a lot better than I imagined.
Aluminum would be awesome but I don't know that you can trail repair it easy and the cost.. Woo I bet they're spendy, I also am shocked nates blazer hasn't had any I says with the arms..
Just saying if you put a dent in it it seriously compromises the strength. And 5000 lbs of truck coming back to down to earth in the just wrong spot is more than a whole Lotta steel can handle.
I think Nate would have wadded that truck up eventually. In a radius arm if it fails it's usually a really expensive fail
I think Nate would have wadded that truck up eventually. In a radius arm if it fails it's usually a really expensive fail
Yah and Nate get razzed about those arms then he did beef up the arms a bit to get him by till he gets beams.
Yes your right but as I see it there are plenty of other things that can happen. I just try to keep my main goals in mind. I find it interesting your commenting on my steel tuning vs the joint, the joints at 7/8x3/4 and are failing around 42k so really id rather bend the tube than break the joint. There has to be a fuse somewhere.
