Where to find oval tubes?

[Jump This]

I have noticed that many people are bending lower control arms.....even .250 wall stuff.
What I would think would work better is an oval tube with the .250 wall. We used to use it for building swing arms for other type rigs. I just don't know where we got ours then....
Anyone try this before? And if it worked...where to get the material?
Rick

[CRASH]

It's called "aero" tube, but I'm not sure it's available in .25. If you use 4130 Chromo, bending arms is not an issue. Mine have been on for 3+ years of the hardest of the hard core trails and they still look good.

Get ready to bend over if you want to buy some aero tube.

CRASH

[Faux4X4]

The aero moly is like $20/ft.

[Uglygreenxj]

There is a company called "The Chassis shop" that carries oval or Aero tube. I don't know the web address. My buddy has one of their catalogues. They have some pretty neat fab stuff. I don't believe that the tubing was cheap though!

[JJ13]

The thickest wall I see in the chassis shop catalog is .065...a little over 1/16 of an inch, and it costs 22 something a foot.


www.chassisshop.com

[RCP Phx]

Originally posted by Jump This
I have noticed that many people are bending lower control arms Rick

Id like to know how you could bend the arms????At least without damage to the rest of the XJ!

[Jump This]

How many rocks you got in Phoenix?:D This last weekend I was shown a control arm that had been pushed and pinched. He had dropped the front end off a large rock and 'shoved' the axel hard enough to bend a LCA. At this point the horror stories started...and it made me think of some old fab work I had done with the aero tubes......

[RCP Phx]

Thats hard to fathom without doing some bracket damage.Who's arms were they?Have you guys considered "disecting" arms to see what wall thickness?This is interesting since last weekend I saw a bunch of TJ's and Rubi's with the new "Toys by Troy" long arms.He uses aluminum in a fairly small diameter!