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Has anyone reinforced their safari draglink? Although its the first time I've damaged mine, if I plan to head out again with Al and Rik (which may not be a good idea anyway) then I think I should make it a little stronger.


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I bent the one in my dads truck in december, pulled it straight with the winch and weleded a peice of 20x20 angle down its length. Seems to have done the truck.

Thanks, couldn't get mine off to straighten so used the sabresaw and now have 2

Will do the same to strentghen mine.


By the way, when is the ute ready? Can't wait to see it in action........

DaveM wrote:By the way, when is the ute ready? Can't wait to see it in action........

I keep asking the same question. Id like to see it in action as well.

I recently replaced the tie rod, the one behind the diff, with a Howat Engineering jobbie as I bent the hell out of the factory one, I plan to leave the drag link as is though, I'd rather have that as a weak point than break something else.

Cheers, Jeff.

Tie rod on mine has had it too. Did you have to supply your old tie rod to Brian to mod, or was it a complete new one?

Complete new one with GU tie rod ends.

Cheers, Jeff.

hmmm, that sounds good. Any idea on price?

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Are you sitting down? $550 odd, which I think in reality is way to expensive, It's made out of solid chromoly which I know is expensive but when you can buy the same thing in Oz for $330 something ain't right.

Cheers, Jeff.

Dak wrote:Are you sitting down? $550 odd, which I think in reality is way to expensive, It's made out of solid chromoly which I know is expensive but when you can buy the same thing in Oz for $330 something ain't right.

Cheers, Jeff.

Holy smokes I think I will just reinforce the $50 replacement I have here to save a little money.

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Use a length of solid and a pair of female tie-rod ends. The rod ends are about $125 each from Nissan, I've posted the part numbers here before (LH and RH have different part numbers).