Gen1, Gen2 A-arm swap?

[motorhead]

Looks like the arms will swap but not sure. Anyone done this so the ball joint flip can be done?

Cheers

[motorhead]

Swapped out one side today and seems to be fine. Will pick up other side this week sometime swap it out, shave upper bump stops, flip b-joints crank torsion bars (cv's to 25 deg) and have it alined. Getting ready for the new 32x11.5 Mudstars

[motorhead]

Gen 2 arms are longer. Am figuring what size spacer needs to be made, so far it looks like 4x12mm galv washers(thick ones) from Mitre 10 will do the trick and leave a little for the alignment.

Stock gen 2 arms on gen 1


With 4 washers

Let a little positive camber for the alignment guy to play with.

Lots of work to gain a few free mm

[sprey]

Lookin good as!, Bet you cant wait to give those new tyres a good run next week!

[motorhead]

Yep, will be talking with Roger on Friday to see if anything has changed. Watch other post for updates. Did you get your CVs done?

[sprey]

Yep, will be talking with Roger on Friday to see if anything has changed. Watch other post for updates. Did you get your CVs done?

Yeap both sides only 1 side was torn but the other side was on its way, so yea gotta play it safe.

New muffler next

[NJV6]

Yes, Gen 2 ones are longer. The first pic you show with the big camber - is that after the ball joint flip?

The ball joint flip gives you alot of unwanted camber.

The washers you put in - make sure those bolts are tight. They WILL come loose unless you either put two nuts on or some type of thread lock and longer bolts.

[motorhead]

Washers are only temp to find out the width of the spacer. Yes this was done after BJ flip. BJ's and a-arms will be double nutted

[binny]

I just picked up a gen1 swb and was looking at doing a bj flip now i no how awsum picks it will be a big help!