A single control arm?

Matthew Currie · Dec 20, 2007

Hi folks. Most of you who know me know I don't visit the modified board often, being a box-stock sort of guy. However, I ran across the suspension setup shown here today in Glens Falls, NY. I am just very curious about its suitability, because I've never seen it done this way, and it doesn't seem as if it would be very strong.

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So, anybody care to edumacate me about single-point control arm setups?

cox_xj · Dec 20, 2007

i believe its called a radius arm

same setup mine came with

oo7ravisXJ · Dec 20, 2007

yup thats a y-link, TNT and some others use that same kind of setup.

cal · Dec 20, 2007

Look at the Rubicon Express longarm kit and the TNT Y-link setup.

http://www.rubiconexpress.com/Products.aspx?Cn=188&Pn=2025&XnPath=173,180,188&Vid=B8D0DD4451738

http://www.tntcustoms.com/webV5/xjylinkupgrade.asp

in2fords · Dec 20, 2007

Looks just like a run of the mill long arm setup to me, pretty much a radious arm set nut using the stock d30 mounts. they are very stable, if set up correctly it will provide much more flex then the stock short arms.
Jeremy

Starboard M · Dec 21, 2007

oo7ravisXJ said:
yup thats a y-link, TNT and some others use that same kind of setup.

No, its a radius style. Y link is what TnTs arms are called.

And radius arms came stock on lots of trucks, so if it works for them, it works fine for us.

RyanM · Dec 21, 2007

Sounds like he is saying that there is only one radius, on the driver. Just the lower on the passenger side. If your asking that, Some people do it to gain more articulation offroad. I wouldl'nt run it, unless it was a true 3 link.

RCP Phx · Dec 21, 2007

I have to say I was out with a Land Rover a couple weeks ago.It uses the C type radius arm that looks like this [__]_________ ,while I didnt care for the ground clearance he had no problem flexing it up!

Matthew Currie · Dec 21, 2007

Thanks, folks. Now I know what I'm looking at. As you can see, the Jeep in question was a bit different from my little old stocker, so it kind of caught my :eyes:

I wouldn't be surprised if it belongs to someone here, or to someone CartsXJ knows. Blue, NY plates, parked at a garage in Queensbury, right next to "Inside Edge" ski and bike shop? I didn't see a NAXJA

sticker, but there's a lot of salt and mud one everything these days.

Matthew Currie · Dec 21, 2007

RyanM said:
Sounds like he is saying that there is only one radius, on the driver. Just the lower on the passenger side. If your asking that, Some people do it to gain more articulation offroad. I wouldl'nt run it, unless it was a true 3 link.

No, matched 3-link radius arms on both sides. It looked pretty sanitary.

xcm · Dec 21, 2007

seems like you gotta drop my mod-tech more often!

A single control arm?

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