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Billet Aluminum front spring crossmember and steering arm

54inches said:
Aly refers to alloy.....:D

Avery, it is usually important when we are dealing with structural components for the adults discussing safety to be on the same page. Plus, if I was wrong then I wanted to know. So, yes it does matter to me.:rolleyes:

Thank you ROADNOTCA for entertaining my questions.
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Avery Got pawned...:haha:
 
54inches said:
Aly refers to alloy.....:D

Avery, it is usually important when we are dealing with structural components for the adults discussing safety to be on the same page. Plus, if I was wrong then I wanted to know. So, yes it does matter to me.:rolleyes:

Thank you ROADNOTCA for entertaining my questions.
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I'm pretty sure an "adult" wouldn't be such a d!ck about it ;) When you respond with stuff like this its hard to know when its sarcastic or not when EVERYONE knew what he was refering to...

54inches said:
Is ALY your girlfriend or some F'd up Russian shorthand for Aluminum?
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Blazr77400 said:
Back to the ketchup heat treating process and how it affects its endurance limit.
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Catsup makes the shafts brittle.
 
38377k5 said:
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Catsup makes the shafts brittle.
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Thank you for the graphic clarafication on this point:haha: Now would a sauce that has less vinager in it make it harder? Would chocolate be a better heat treating substance? And would the almighty beaver oil fix this problem....
George
 
mudman83 said:
7075 aluminum can take more load than some steel (i don't remember what steel). However, 7075 is expensive and that is only an initial strenght. The endurance factor would worry me. But then again, most fuselages are made from aluminum and fly for years. I still don't think it is a good idea if it is not porperly engineered.
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I realize that I am replying to a year old post, but I just read this whole thread so I might as well post something. :D

Yes they do make aircraft fuselages out of Aluminum, but in the early days they had birds falling from the sky in pieces before they figured out that pressureization/depresurization cycles were causing the fuselages to crack at the windows due to fatigue. The aircraft were properly designed from a force perspective, but not from a fatigue perspective. Now they have very rigid inpection programs for all aircraft to check for cracks and signs of fatigue. I suppose you could make steering and suspension parts out of Aluminum - IF you magneflux them weekly.

True some OEM suspension parts are made of Aluminum (Porsche upper control arms come to mind), but unless you have an automakers engineering dept. to analyze and descructivley test your design, I'd steer clear. Just spend the extra $$ and time to cut steel.
 
Home made aluminum steering components ?? :rolleyes:

I wouldn't want to be your insurance company dood.....especially when something fails at highway speed and you hit a busload of nuns...

I can hear the personal injury lawyer now....

So,,,let me understand this correctly,,,you took of a perfectly good
NTSB approved part off of your truck and replaced it with an untested part you made yourself out of a completely different material because you thought it would look cool ?

Please face the jury when you answer sir....
 
Well, to be fair, I doubt that Caddy Eldo calipers are DOT-approved for use in my pickup.

However, at least they're brake calipers being used as brake calipers, and not something I made at home out of Coke cans and a condom :haha:

-- A
 
True the whole 4x4/hot rod thing is to change stuff and make it better for what you want to do with the vehicle. Some people build nice K5s, some people build bling-bling vehicles with no pistons or con-rods (cause they'll never be driven), and some people strap JATO rockets to their roof......
 
Haha, I remember this thread :haha:

The execution of the steering arm looked great. I simply feel that without knowing how to design parts like this that its dangerous to change materials, especially for something as important as the steering.
 
38377k5 said:
The execution of the steering arm looked great. I simply feel that without knowing how to design parts like this that its dangerous to change materials, especially for something as important as the steering.
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I am gonna look past all the retarded responses and show some of the steering. Its been installed since May of this year. Have had no problems.
I have checked it multiple times. The bolts have not loosened up.
The draglink hole has not egged out. It actually holds the taper better the my dana 60 knuckles. The shackles have not broke, yet.

The thing is, I use it to pull a trailer full of nuns. I also use my "Aluminum" hitch to pull them with. They haven't said a word about the aluminum parts.

Here are a few pics for the shat talking web wheelers. Although some of you know what you are talking about. Most dont.

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38377k5 said:
Haha, I remember this thread :haha:

The execution of the steering arm looked great. I simply feel that without knowing how to design parts like this that its dangerous to change materials, especially for something as important as the steering.
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You are sounding more like an engineer every day, keep it up.
 
No, they're not. They are also talking about knuckles, which are under far more stress than a steering arm. Those billet aluminum arms are massive - I would wager that they will outlive the knuckles that they are bolted to.
 
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