A Arm idea

[00srad600]

Anyone ever thought of building long travel a arms. What I'm thinking is that with longer a arms you could get more lift and better ground clearance. I'm talking 6 to 9 inches longer getting custom shafts. The only thing I'm worried about is steering I know I could build the arms and shafts but not sure on how to set the steering up. Any ideas on steering cause everything else is pretty simple. Thanks for the help

 

[4x4junkie]

You talking like the Dixon Bros. kits?
http://www.dixonbrosracing.com/content/blogsection/2/6/

Or you thinking of grafting A-arms onto a beam truck?

 

[Str8sixfan]

The closest thing I could think of that would be anywhere near relevant would be trying to steal ideas from the Peterson's crew on their UA Eco-Boost truck:

http://www.4wheeloffroad.com/ultimateadventure/2011/131_1110_ultimate_2011_ford_f150_ecoboost_part_4/

 

[00srad600]

Well I should have said this in the first post. But what I'm doing is taking a b2 frame and putting the ifs of a 91 nissan d21 pickup the reason is the rear end is 9.25 posi with 4.66 gears. Now why would I do that we'll I have a 91 nissan with a bad frame so I have the stuff already and the set up is super simple. The rear end has shafts like a solid axle that run just a foot from the hubs. Then it's a 6 bolt flang then there's your cvs that run to the the hubs. I really love the set up but you can only get maybe 6 to 8 inches of wheel travel. Now what I'm thinking is that if I build my own set up I can get 14 to 16 inch of wheel travel. By extending the arms and changing from cvs to a half shafts. Using coils over tbars then I when out and was looking at the steering set up on the hubs I think I can build a hi steer set up. All in all I think I just needed more time to think about the set up cause I'm pretty sure I got it now. That and being that I will be building all the brackets to set everything in there I can drop it down a littles farther then what the nissan sits. But thank you guys for showing me them set up it really did help

 

[00srad600]

Ok so the a arms are about 20 inches long and that gives me 5 inches of wheel travel. So to get the wheel travel I want and to keep ujoints happy I would need to make my a arms 40 inches long and that will give me 10 inches of wheel travel easy now with modding the bump stops after I can get a good amount of wheel travel and keep every thing nice and happy. Lol and people say the only way to go is sas ha no that's just the easy way now time to start getting to work ill set up a build log on it

 

[4x4junkie]

So you're going to make this thing almost 3½ feet wider than stock??? (20" longer each side?) That's going to be about the width of a big-rig truck

 

[snoranger]

80" of control arms!! The max vehicle width allowed on the road is 102"... Keep that in mind.

 

[UrbanRedneckKid]

A 1:1 scale replica of a remote-controlled stadium truck...

 

[00srad600]

Well I'm not building a dd I'm building a toy. So I really don't care how wide it is. That and the set up on the nissan is only 65 inches. Then as long as I use 20x10 rims with a good off set I can get away with it. So then ill just do 35 inch a arms then I'm leagal. I just want some 42 with ifs cause I'm putting an ext cab ranger on the b2 frame I might do a doubler. I just want something to play in and I hate solid axles

 

[UrbanRedneckKid]

It's actually aught to be a pretty cool build.

Only thing I would do different would be a Ford 9" center. I've built narrowed drag axles that would easily fit between the a-arm mounts.

Then you could put some tire to it....

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[4x4junkie]

A 1:1 scale replica of a remote-controlled stadium truck...

That was exactly my thought as well

Maybe check out some of the Ultra4 (KOH) IFS rockracing cars for ideas.

 

[00srad600]

Well the reason I'm using the nissan axle is that I have one. That and the thing is tits off road it is a 9.5 with posi 4.66 don't need to buy gears and the matching rear diff is free with rotors over drum and its also posi. That and I plan to run the whole nissan drivetrain that vg30e is a pretty simple motor to turbo and get around 300 horse power with axles that will hold to 600 hp. So that's my power plant a boosted v6 haven't seen one of them in there. Just need to strip everything from the b2 frame cut all the old ifs stuff out. Then I just need to find a body unless I just the nissan cab. I rather have a gen 1 or 2 ext cab ranger to put on it. I think it should be pretty cool.

 

[UrbanRedneckKid]

To bad your not closer, I have a 98 supercab parts truck...

Your best bet is to find someone parting one on Craigslist, I've never paid or sold a cab more than $200.

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[00srad600]

I like the 83 to 92 cabs and front clip I like square body's. there is an 87 at the junk yard but then I would have to get an r title for it. I may just use the nissan cab and mod the 89 front clip to fit the cab. That and being there should only be 3 to 4 feet behind the cab ill just tub it up and use mud flaps. Just needs to warm up no shelter I can work under

 

[00srad600]

What I really need right now is the slip joint for the nissan t case. Can't seem to find one if anyone can find me a slip joint for a 90 to 97 nissan d21 would be great.