Mini link bar type thing??

[readymix]

I am wanting or needing to make a brace for my York.
I want to run a brace from one of the mounting holes on the york back to the middle of the intake on the pass side. There is a bolt nut combo dealy that holds a bracket to the intake. I think that if I run a mini-link type bar between the two points it will prevent the york form vibrating so much when running.
Few questions here:

1. Is it a bad idea to run a brace like that? between the aluminum york and the aluminum intake?
2. How do I best go about building said brace? I was thinking about a small piece of pipe with some nuts welded to the ends. Whatever I connect to the york will be threaded and have a jam nut on it.....make sense at all??

Any suggestions? I could take a few pics to illustrate if it would clarify anything.

 

[readymix]

I know that someone on here has done something similar. I remember seeing pictures of it at one time.

 

[dremu]

Sounds reasonable to me. Material types are immaterial, imho, i.e. don't matter if it's aluminum or steel.

Pipe with nuts welded on the ends is cheap, and for what you're doing should be fine. The karmatically correct way to be to use tubing and thread the ends, maybe sleeve the tubing with the next size up if it's thin wall ... but for this, that's completely unnecessary =))

Dangit, now I wanna go look at my York and see if it needs love. Nah, IIRC, mine is bolted to the brackets in two dimensions, so it shouldn't be going anywhere...

-- A

 

[cybrfire]

I have "mini links" on my blazer accessories. All of them if i recall correctly.

I used 3/8" heims on each end of the link with opposite threads so you can just crank it by hand and lock the jamb nut.

 

[readymix]

By 3/8" heims do you mean the thread size of the heim or the soze bolt that can pass through it?
And are heims of that size easy to find?