Offroad-Express

I'm looking at getting a set of heavy duty trailing arms for the hippo, but I'm having them extended slightly to help rotate the diff a little.

Can anyone recommend how much longer to make them? I'm thinking somewhere between 10 and 16mm for a 4" lift.
I'm told I'll be able to jack the truck up off them if I needed to

How on earth have you managed to bend/break your standard ones???

DaveM wrote:I'm told I'll be able to jack the truck up off them if I needed to

Brian making those for you aswell? He said the same thing about my ones.

16mm rings a bell from somewhere on outerlimits

DieselBoy wrote::shock: How on earth have you managed to bend/break your standard ones???

Havent bent them, but I know at least 4 people that have, and I'm trying to get the truck fairly bullet proof so it can handle my poor driving skill
The main reason is that I was going to get adjustable uppers to help rotate the diff, but a few guys in oz are saying just go for a slightly longer lower, which will do the same thing, while helping get rid of a known weak point

Doddzee, do you run Brians arms on your swb? Did he make from scratch or reinforce your old ones? Also going to see if he does drop boxes.

He made a new arm but used the bushes from the original, I think i have have some spare arms which you can use for the bushes if you want (exchange).

When i spoke to him about the boxes he hadnt made any i was going to supply him with drawings to make me up a set but spoke to Grant Guy wile at OBC who was already making them so just bought a pair from them.

If you have the spare arms I might take those too if thats ok.
I will give him a call in the morning to make sure he can do them for me, and I'll give Grant a call about the drop boxes.

Will try a set of slotted bushes on the radius arms to see how they go too.
Looks like I'll have to stay on call for the next few months to pay for all this

Sweet as let me know how you get on.

Standard arms are thin wall and bend as easily as standard panhard rods. Heavy duty are the go.

16-18mm extended lower arms is right for a 4" lift. Mike Graham made me a set using 25mmx50mm section and extended them by 16mm. With the main plate on the drop boxes being 8mm thick, I removed the other gearbox packers altogether and have no driveshaft vibes.

I think the arms were $250 for the pair.

Cheers
Mitch

yeah i bent one of my arms quite bad out on a bush mission
so bad infact i had to repair it before i could continue

I have bent one of my arms, so I got Howie to make up some thicker wall ones for my shorty.
Climbing out of river beds, over rocks, banks etc are a common way of bending them

I've got my newly reinforced arms here, along with the panhards, just deciding what coils/shocks to use and will get a set of drop boxes made too.