Extended radius arm question?

[pyrosity]

some one told me that the tube style radius arms can be heated up and bent to help align your vehicle if its way out after you install the arms.

HAS ANYONE ELSE EVER HEARD THIS?

ALSO IF SO.....

I have a pair of tuff country extended radius arms that im preping to repaint and get ready to install, but when i was looking over them, i noticed that the top bar on the left side wasnt straight along with the bottom bar....it looked as if someone had put some huge stress or maybe heated and bent it? could this be fixed? hard to take a picture of it, but just imagine looking down at it from up above...both bars should line up with eachother. looking at top the bottom should be hidden from the top bar. well my top bar bends outward farther and at the bend, bends in farther coming across almost?

ANYONE HAVE ANY IDEAS AS TO WHAT THIS COULD BE? AND COULD I REHEAT IT IN A FIRE, GET IT BEAT RED, AND REBEND IT BACK TO LOOK LIKE THE OTHER SIDE?

 

[crawlin91]

sure if you want to weaken the steel and risk premature breakage

 

[4x4junkie]

Yeah, you don't "fix" an alignment issue by bending your suspension all up.
If it can't be aligned normally, then something is wrong (something already damaged, or perhaps the coils are sitting at the incorrect height).

I would get a new arm for it or build ones of your own to replace them maybe. That one's most likely been bent in a wreck or something.

 

[pyrosity]

That one's most likely been bent in a wreck or something.

Thats kind of what i thought.

Huh? wonder how hard it would be to just make the same thing off the existing one i have.

I think i might try bending them to match dimensions and welding on some reinforcements which by looking at these tube styled bars could probably need it anyways. Ill make a post of it if i do.

THANKS AGAIN GUYS!

 

[4x4junkie]

Try searching for home made radius arms, there's been a good number of posts about it in the past. Most people are using stock arms as the base for their designs, but I would think you could use what's left of the TC arms to make a set as well.

Good luck

 

[pyrosity]

good idea man...ill see what i can make up....