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Best longarms for Mid-atlantic wheeling?

ehall said:
looking at the skyjacker install PDFs, their kits appear to be drop brackets on a custom crossmember
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It also comes with a bolt-on truss. Really good idea.
 
sunburned said:
I just don't know what is 'too-steep' for radius arms, ya know? I went up an obstacle saturday that was pretty damn steep and had me leaning pretty far back when just the front tires were up on it. Whenever I get on something like that, it always crosses my mind that maybe this is the point I'd see the 'unloading' from a radius arm? I had no problem climbing up with the rear tires and getting over though.


KTM Racer: After looking at your 'mid-arm' type 3-link on Pirate's website, I see your LCA mounts sit pretty low below the frame. Ever have much problem with ground clearance on the mounts? I was looking at Poly Performance's 3-link and it looks great, but it sits so low. Pretty expensive too, but you can buy their mounts seperately and build the links yourself. Am I worrying too much about clearance? I'll be sitting on 35's here soon, so will that kind of negate any clearance problems I have now on 32's?
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other longarms mount the same way, just further back, which is not neccessary with my height. sure i drag them over rocks, but i never get hung up on them or do they stop me from completing an obstacle
 
Dundy said:
It also comes with a bolt-on truss. Really good idea.
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No, says in the instructions that it does not come with a truss. That XJ looks to be pretty built already seeing as it has huge tires and some sort of aftermarket T-case.



The arm setup looks great on the skyjacker, but I hate the lack of a good skid. I guess it wouldn't be hard to weld on some big pieces of steel to the bottom of their brackets, but that's something they should do. No way I could keep my TnT belly pan with those brackets.
 
ehall said:
looking at the skyjacker install PDFs, their kits appear to be drop brackets on a custom crossmember
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the UCA mounts are dropped a ~4" and the LCA mounts are dropped ~4" and pushed back 5-6".


Dundy said:
It also comes with a bolt-on truss. Really good idea.
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only the 8", the 6" doesnt use it and mounts like mine.


sunburned said:
The arm setup looks great on the skyjacker, but I hate the lack of a good skid. I guess it wouldn't be hard to weld on some big pieces of steel to the bottom of their brackets, but that's something they should do. No way I could keep my TnT belly pan with those brackets.
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It would be very easy to add/build a skid off of the crossmember setup. if i was keeping mine longer, i would add something. as it is, the sloping mounts behind the LCA make a great ramp to slide off, even though it all my years ive only hit it a handful of times.
 
So what your thoughts on the BDS set up? No one has spoken on it Its a true 4 link setup with a lifetime warranty. yea yea I no Clayton has a warranty 2. But claytons are a radius setup.
 
I built my own set of longarms, but basically duplicated the Claytons setup. I already had the TnT Bellypan installed (w/o the longarms though), so I figured I could incorporate a setup that utilized both.

I really liked claytons arms, but since I already had the bellypan protection, in my opinion it would have been useless to sell that only to have to fab up something else to protect that transmission/transfer case. So far im pretty happy with how everything works. The longarms flex great and the bellypans taken a beating.

If I were starting from scratch and were planning on wheeling in this area, Claytons would be my number one choice.
 
ehall said:
Has anyone seen or heard where longarms under the rails prevented someone from clearing an obstacle?
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never happened to me in about 4+ years of wheeling with them

not saying it can't happen, i guess if you decided to run longarms without lockers and somehow managed to get the arm on a rock and another part of the jeep on a rock leaving a couple tires in the air, its possible.

but who runs longarms without lockers?
 
ktm racer 419 said:
never happened to me in about 4+ years of wheeling with them

not saying it can't happen, i guess if you decided to run longarms without lockers and somehow managed to get the arm on a rock and another part of the jeep on a rock leaving a couple tires in the air, its possible.

but who runs longarms without lockers?
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I do....Clayton front and rear, d30 open in the front, chry.8.25 in the rear with a Detroit TrueTrac...on 35" Mt/R's...and still running 3.55's at that...still can do 75 on the highway and take whatever at Rausch with a little patience and a good line...never had any breakage issues in 3 years plus of hard running...I stick with what works.
Rich
 
ninetysix-ex-jay said:
Anyone have anything negative to say about the RK system? Who actually runs it here and likes/dislikes it? How was the install?
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i used to run the gen 2 3 link.

it was awesome

my lower control arms are still mostly rock krawler and use the original ungreased heims.
 
there is no longarm that is best for any 1 wheeling location, in my opinion, any quality built an an properly installed la set up, will crap all over any, an i mean ANY short arm kit out there


fyi i run claytons an love them, no problems at all so far
 
great-white said:
there is no longarm that is best for any 1 wheeling location, in my opinion, any quality built an an properly installed la set up, will crap all over any, an i mean ANY short arm kit out there


fyi i run claytons an love them, no problems at all so far
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i used to think it was hogwash

but 3 or 4 links >radius arms

there is a difference
 
great-white said:
there is no longarm that is best for any 1 wheeling location, in my opinion, any quality built an an properly installed la set up, will crap all over any, an i mean ANY short arm kit out there


fyi i run claytons an love them, no problems at all so far
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I'm going to disagree, I have drop brackets and they are the shit. I have a set of used claytons sitting in my basement, but I really don't have any huge desire to install them any time soon, I like my drop brackets a lot. And I have wheeled a friend's XJ with TNT stuff, so you can't say its because I haven't driven long arms.
 
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