extended radius arm bracket plans??

[Harley]

does anybody have any plans drawn up for these?? i want to have some parts cut out so i can weld them up and wondered if anybody had some plans i could use??

 

[Hagan]

Are you just extending the arm and using the stock stud? I think you are going to have to go custom. Hope someone better at this subject can chime in.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

I'd think it would depend on how you plan on extending the arms, if you're planning to cut the stud off the old arms and re-locate it to the end of the extended arm or if you plan to use like a Johnny Joint.

If you are planning to re-use the stud, you might be able to make something work if you used the radius arm mounts from an F-150. I know when I replaced those mounts on my F-150 I held the old mount up on my choptop and it looked like it could work.

I did custom extended radius arms on my choptop last year and made my own frame mounts for using a like Johnny Joint. I ended up going with the Ballistic joint (from Ballistic Fab) because I wanted something made in USA. For the mount on the frame, I used a piece of 1/4" plate and a piece of 3x3x.250 angle.

Ignore the "left" mark on the steel, that is really the bracket for the right hand side.

 

[Harley]

Are you just extending the arm and using the stock stud? .

thats what i was planning

 

[Harley]

I'd think it would depend on how you plan on extending the arms, if you're planning to cut the stud off the old arms and re-locate it to the end of the extended arm or if you plan to use like a Johnny Joint.

If you are planning to re-use the stud, you might be able to make something work if you used the radius arm mounts from an F-150. I know when I replaced those mounts on my F-150 I held the old mount up on my choptop and it looked like it could work.

I did custom extended radius arms on my choptop last year and made my own frame mounts for using a like Johnny Joint. I ended up going with the Ballistic joint (from Ballistic Fab) because I wanted something made in USA. For the mount on the frame, I used a piece of 1/4" plate and a piece of 3x3x.250 angle.

Ignore the "left" mark on the steel, that is really the bracket for the right hand side.

thanks! that looks surprisingly simple...ill be going to the metal place soon. thanks!

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

thanks! that looks surprisingly simple...ill be going to the metal place soon. thanks!

Thanks, it took me a little bit to work out how I wanted to built it. Using the angle saved me from making another weld to make the whole thing out of 1/4" plate and I believe it is plenty strong enough. For the extended arms I used some 2x2x.250 square tube, welded in a threaded fitting for the joint, and plated the back of the radius arm where I cut it with 1/4" plate.

http://www.therangerstation.com/forums/showthread.php?t=128887

That's the link to my build thread on here in case you're interested. The hardest part was getting everything lined up and tacked when I was ready to begin putting it together. I did have to modify the transmission crossmember to make it all work, I've wanted to build a custom crossmember but haven't got that far with things yet. I just used a piece of C channel to modify the crossmember, worked great.

 

[Harley]

Thanks, it took me a little bit to work out how I wanted to built it. Using the angle saved me from making another weld to make the whole thing out of 1/4" plate and I believe it is plenty strong enough. For the extended arms I used some 2x2x.250 square tube, welded in a threaded fitting for the joint, and plated the back of the radius arm where I cut it with 1/4" plate.

http://www.therangerstation.com/forums/showthread.php?t=128887

That's the link to my build thread on here in case you're interested. The hardest part was getting everything lined up and tacked when I was ready to begin putting it together. I did have to modify the transmission crossmember to make it all work, I've wanted to build a custom crossmember but haven't got that far with things yet. I just used a piece of C channel to modify the crossmember, worked great.

thanks again, i might head to the metal place this week now....went through your build thread too, looks good!

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

thanks again, i might head to the metal place this week now....went through your build thread too, looks good!

Thanks! It's been a bit of a haphazard build, every time I've put a bunch of work into it, my intention was to complete everything before putting it to use since I learned long ago that if you don't do it all at once, it'll never get completed. Somehow I've never managed to follow through with that though. It's always work a ton on it then put it to work, lol.