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I'm thinkin about some back yard links. I was lookin at my current leaf spring hangers thinkin, those would be great places to start for a link style suspension set up.
DOM is 22 bucks a foot around here, heims are wicked expensive, and tube inserts are killer in the end. I got to thinkin about back woods links for a trail rig.
What about using 2.5" OD square tube instead of DOM?
Cheap, can be re-enforced along the seam with plate, and comes with tons of different wall thicknesses. Wouldn't kink as easy as round tube, especially with some heafty plate welded to the bottom.
Instead of heims, how about this? Drilling some holes in the square tube, welding a piece of DOM in, and stuffing in a really soft bushing. Run a bolt through just like a leaf spring and even use the current hangers. Would just have to weld tabs to the axle. The bushings would be easily replaceable, and cheap!
The square tube would make it really easy to mount a coil seat on like the early Ford radius arms where the coil seat bolts in to the arm and the other part of the C. Or like the rear design on old chevys.
Shock tabs would be wicked easy. Coil buckets could be burned to the chassis with ease.
Should I have laid off the cheap burbon or could this possibly work for a trail rig?
DOM is 22 bucks a foot around here, heims are wicked expensive, and tube inserts are killer in the end. I got to thinkin about back woods links for a trail rig.
What about using 2.5" OD square tube instead of DOM?
Cheap, can be re-enforced along the seam with plate, and comes with tons of different wall thicknesses. Wouldn't kink as easy as round tube, especially with some heafty plate welded to the bottom.
Instead of heims, how about this? Drilling some holes in the square tube, welding a piece of DOM in, and stuffing in a really soft bushing. Run a bolt through just like a leaf spring and even use the current hangers. Would just have to weld tabs to the axle. The bushings would be easily replaceable, and cheap!
The square tube would make it really easy to mount a coil seat on like the early Ford radius arms where the coil seat bolts in to the arm and the other part of the C. Or like the rear design on old chevys.
Shock tabs would be wicked easy. Coil buckets could be burned to the chassis with ease.
Should I have laid off the cheap burbon or could this possibly work for a trail rig?