radius arm question.

[radardog]

ok now i have been around here for a little while, and havnt seen this in all my research for my hp44 radius arm install....

i was wondering if anyone has ever taken the "C"s and radius arms and put them out back... on say a 14bff, or anything else for that matter????

what would be pros, and cons of a set up like this?

is it just stupid, or would it work well?

 

[Mr.OverKill]

ok now i have been around here for a little while, and havnt seen this in all my research for my hp44 radius arm install....

i was wondering if anyone has ever taken the "C"s and radius arms and put them out back... on say a 14bff, or anything else for that matter????

what would be pros, and cons of a set up like this?

is it just stupid, or would it work well?

i asked this question before and got some hi tech answers that said baisicly the charicteristics of that would be really bad off road ( anti squat, roll center ect... ) and mabi even on road as well.

 

[tealcherokee]

yeah, itd be terrible, antisquat would be through the roof

 

[radardog]

what if you applied a liberal amount of center strap, and designed it to get your movement at the wheels only rather than full axle droop? would that change anything?

 

[BrettM]

If you're okay with the anti-squat characteristics of a radius arm rear (center limiting strap will help) I would rather go with a "one-link" with a nice massive joint on the wishbone. With radius arms there is still axle wrap and bind, but with a "one-link" there is neither. Here's one example of the "one-link": http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=35652&highlight=one-link

 

[radardog]

yeah, i am familiar with the one link set ups.

i was going to do one on my old suburban using a Bull Dog hitch and a 30,000lbs 2 5/8" ball

 

[radardog]

do the ford style radius arms bind up any more or less than say the style a lot of guys are runing with only one upper? i imagine the "C" bushings move a bit more than the little CA bushings, but i could be wrong

 

[STEELFISH]

I talked fairly extensively with Jim Cole (CAGE OFFROAD) he says there are a lot of guys using his weld on brkts and arms for rear use, he claims they seem to enjoy it fairly well.
J

 

[vintagespeed]

Rovers are radius arm rear, and they seem to wheel. Although they dont connect to the axle with a "C" bushing like Ferds, they use two separate bushings fore/aft of the axletube.

edit:

They call them "trailing arms"