oh wait a minute, i screwed up.

that bracket's gonna push my uppers outwards!

maybe i could make up for that by cranking in my upper heims and cranking out my lowers... idk

 

Yeah, I don't have any need for anything that fancy either. I just bent the top one for the 2 reasons I was on about earlier.

 

You should be fully adjustable in all directions. I wouldn't sweat the geometry at this point. Just add the same length to all arms.

 

yeah but i'm gonna be lowering the rear a little by chopping the upper mount, and isnt the front end gonna sit higher? or i guess that just depends on what length shocks i get and where i mount them.

 

Yeah, you have a point. Maybe you should incorporate a little caster adjustment before you weld everything up.

I have an extra 1/2 inch in the front and minus 1 inch in back due to the tires. Not sure how much the arms n shocks raises the front and not sure how much the back was lowered, but the frame tilts back a lot. And then when I sit on it, it gets worse. I moved the top balljoint forward close to an inch and it could really stand to go a little more. Probably not another inch though.

 

well, maybe i could just whip up a bracket out of 1/4" plate, but have it straight and long. maybe 5 holes, and the middle hole would be on the rear of the balljoint, and the most forward on the arm.

like this:



do you have a pic of the upper balljoint mounting area on the upper arm? (i wanna get an idea of if the surface is flat to clear the bracket, or if i will need to use washers and stuff. and also, i dont remember if the balljoint mounts on top of or under the arm, my quad isnt at my place right now.)

 

 

hey, thanx alot atvman.

maybe you should make a little 1/4" plate bracket to move back the upper balljoints in just a bit to tweak ur camber... shouldnt be a big job at all.

 

ok folks, got another update:

SERIOUSLY beefed up the arms (up to a whopping ~6lbs each!)






what??? decent welds from flux core??? wow, im startin to like my welder again! (just took alot of playing with the settings)





so, what do you all think so far?

 

Looks really good man! I'll come up with something to get rid of that camber.