Where to find oval tubes?

Jump This

Just another minion!

Location

Borrego Springs Ca.

• Sep 4, 2003

• #1

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

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Location

Foresthill, CA

• Sep 4, 2003

• #2

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

 

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Faux4X4

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Location

So Cal

• Sep 4, 2003

• #3

The aero moly is like $20/ft.

 

Uglygreenxj

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Location

Circle City, AZ

• Sep 5, 2003

• #4

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!

 

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JJ13

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Location

Longview Washington

• Sep 5, 2003

• #5

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

 

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RCP Phx

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Location

Phoenix,Az

• Sep 5, 2003

• #6

Jump This said:

I have noticed that many people are bending lower control arms Rick

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

 

Jump This

Just another minion!

Location

Borrego Springs Ca.

• Sep 6, 2003

• #7

How many rocks you got in Phoenix? 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......

 

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RCP Phx

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Location

Phoenix,Az

• Sep 6, 2003

• #8

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!