New A-Arms

Beautiful!!!

Those look great!

Thanks. Just wish a few things were not taking so long. The laser/flame cutting business is just....busy.....


Did have a Cushman with ridgid ridged springs. Think I may have already posted it. I uses it to haul welders and such back and forth. I changed it to triangulated 4-link, airbag, cub cadet tires.

Huge ride improvement. Working on a sway bar. With a sway bar I will be able to lower tire pressure too which will help ride when I am not hauling anything.

It's an old rough truck but it has been handy!

I hope you will show us how you adjusted the length of the steering rack to minimize bump steer.

Jack

The Pantera raq is about 1" too long by my calculations. I input the suspension parameters in susprog. I built a jig to make these measurements by cutting tubing and bolting the tubing into the suspension points. Then I built a frame and welded it to these points. I unbolted the frame and used this frame to to measure suspension points:

This jig will mount to the suspension points in...my Pantera.





This is 3 different raqs. The middle raq is the Pantera raq which is about an inch too long between pivots. The bottom raq is the MG raq which I forget where ti is at. The top raq is the power steering raq which is about 2 inches too short between pivots.



I needed to change the length of the power raq and I wanted to make it a little adjustable.

I cut off the old ball joint. It is not weldable because the heat destroys the ball joint. The MG ball joint is rebuildable so I was able to take it off and us it. I welded the ball joint to an extended threaded rod.

With the threaded rod I can fine tune the length then weld in place.












This leaves me about an inch of adjustment.

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Now put them in a box and ship them to me!!!


Ron

Sorry, I maxed out my shipping charges with UPS.

DAMMIT!

I got the right side mounted today. I still need to clean up and paint the upright, ball joints and tie-rod ends.

7.2 degrees of caster:

The a-arms look great installed. Still keeping my fingers crossed for your potential front a-arm kit in the future.

What kind shock/air bag are you running?

The front airbag is Shockwave #21150801. Ride tech worked will Hall some time back and they used this airbag. It is pretty much a bolt on. It comes with 1/2 or 5/8 inserts so you would have to drill the metric holes slightly to 1/2.

Working with the geometry a little this weekend...Very slow. With the new laser business and another car torn down right now.

Looks like bringing the caster up to 7 degrees raises the ball on the upright about .39". This is equivalent to dropping the rack close to this amount.

Looks great Gary!