For the a-arm pivots, are most of you guys just using the stock bushing piece and welding it onto the new tubing or do you have a source for some sort of slide in bushing?
I'm not liking the idea of welding on a sleeve that has a molded rubber bushing pressed in it. Taking a 15 year old rubber bushing and burning part of it out inside just doesn't seem like a good idea.
Energy Suspension has "universal" fitment bushings that we comonly use in automotive stuff, but the smallest bolt size they have a fitment for is 1/2"; didn't want to go that big, especially not drilling out the stock mounts that much. I found of few places that have kits for sport-quads, but they get $100 per end which is half the material and twice the cost of the auto ones. I also thought about the stock polaris ones, since they are the regular slip-in two piece type as well, but I've heard they're kinda soft and thus wear pretty quickly.
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'09Thundercat - 1000ish
SpeedWerx powa, /// WCD, 4" catvos, 29.5 terms
'96 300 ...a little taller & a little more power than most.....
Oh, and this is an IRS conversion as well, thus one way or the other I need atleast 8 complete bushings. - Would preffere to put the same set-up @ both ends.
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'09Thundercat - 1000ish
SpeedWerx powa, /// WCD, 4" catvos, 29.5 terms
'96 300 ...a little taller & a little more power than most.....
I figured something out though. 1/2" OD tubing fits the 3/8 bolts, and I have some killer tough 1/2" ID nylon hose here at the store which happens to have the perfect OD to snuggly fit 3/4 black pipe. 2" sections of tubing & hose + 1.25" sections of black pipe + a roughly 1/2" section of 3/4 hose on each end to keep the pipe centered = custom cheap bushings that are also easily replaceable.
After 10 minutes of burning and prying, I completely destroyed one stock front bushing with the plasma just trying to get the sleeve piece out to use for the OE 10mm bolts. After that I decided I could easily spot tack the arms to the OE molded bushings w/o bruning them out. SO, I have 3 front arms with the OE ends/bushings, the other front and all the rears with my custom ones. - lol
Should have the bike finished by Friday. Been working almost non-stop on it outside of my job and occassional sleep to have it ready to go to a Trucks Gone Wild event this weekend. I "leaked" a couple pics on HL, but I went +6 IRS with a full custom frame & the tree-fiddy foreman motor.
-- Edited by JPs300 on Tuesday 29th of March 2011 03:27:13 PM
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'09Thundercat - 1000ish
SpeedWerx powa, /// WCD, 4" catvos, 29.5 terms
'96 300 ...a little taller & a little more power than most.....
We'll see how mine hold. They're a very tough material, and total cost for one end of the bike(4 arms = 8 bushings) was less than $20. - I could have justified $100-150 total, but the poly kits were that much per end of the bike.
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'09Thundercat - 1000ish
SpeedWerx powa, /// WCD, 4" catvos, 29.5 terms
'96 300 ...a little taller & a little more power than most.....
i built a custom set of a arms in my shop here at the house and i just cut my factory bushings and all off the factory a arms and welded them right onto my new a arms i used a small pan and i layed my a arms in it kinda in a angle with the bushing in the water and i welded the to me new a arms i didnt burn or even get my bushings hot and i have a bullet proof front end im working on irs right now with my bike having a straight axle in the rear i dont get the clearence but in the front i have 20inchs of clearence with factory axles i cut themand extended them to the right legnth and putapeice of dom tubing over the shaft and welded itfor a sleeve and this thing is bullet proof
i built a custom set of a arms in my shop here at the house and i just cut my factory bushings and all off the factory a arms and welded them right onto my new a arms i used a small pan and i layed my a arms in it kinda in a angle with the bushing in the water and i welded the to me new a arms i didnt burn or even get my bushings hot and i have a bullet proof front end im working on irs right now with my bike having a straight axle in the rear i dont get the clearence but in the front i have 20inchs of clearence with factory axles i cut themand extended them to the right legnth and putapeice of dom tubing over the shaft and welded itfor a sleeve and this thing is bullet proof
My sleeved fronts have been fine, if you do so in the back you're going to have trouble. The rear axles see a lot more load than the fronts. I've rung off .134 wall and .150 wall DOM; clean broke the tubing itself. - Just on 27 vamps, not even a bigger back or law on it yet.
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'09Thundercat - 1000ish
SpeedWerx powa, /// WCD, 4" catvos, 29.5 terms
'96 300 ...a little taller & a little more power than most.....
