Thread: D2 watts link conversion to D1 A frame

Originally Posted by Baffle

oops sorry, yea that Reading to quick, well for me anyway.....

What do you think of the trailing arms on the site I posted up ?

The flex will be unchanged. All they do is change the steering castor and pinion angle - ie for lifted suspension.

Ok, opps again, maybe ive posted the wrong site, the trailing arms I was looking at looked great and showed alot of improvement, Ill look through my bookmarks and find what I was looking at.

Had an idea about keeping the Watts link and having 2 single lower arms ( mounted to the lower front mount of the diff ) and instead of the A frame, have 1 link at the top of the diff to the center of the chassis .??

Originally Posted by Baffle

Strange how things happen. Ran into Disco thrasher today, small world, I was 24 hrs behind him looking at how to fit coil over shocks and a A-frame at Wizards.Now im reading about it on the site
Im going this way at the moment for the rear trailing + the coil over shock's 3º Castor Corrected Radius Arm from Qt Services Limited in the site under the index.

Im going to keep the Watts as Ive already twisted and welded the upper driverside arm by a few degrees and think by building the lower arm it should work fine,already ground out 15mm of the mount, maybe test shorter lengths, At the end of the day, how far do you go until its full roll cage stuff,I think that the A frame is a good idea but, Welding extea mounts, changing trailing arm mounts to singles, there is alot of work and money involved.
As Slunnie and a few have said rose joints are the way to go adding alot of extra flex while keeping the original mounts.
Test this first, if it does not work, the A frame is in.

Yours

yeah good to meet you today baffle pity it was just after i exploded my rear diff , i had depression and fury running through the blood

myself and Greg (grover69) from Outcast offroad have being discussing the conversion for awhile now and really think its the way to go ,we should hook up and throw some ideas around see if its a goer ,
ah yeah awesome rig you got there ,its good to see D2 getting the **** done to them and not staying as shopping trolleys

there are some awesome ideas here rose joints a great concept but i am tired of testing things ,i reckon if comp trucks run A frame or 5 link ,we know its gonna work why not go straight there spend the money on something that we all now works very well
cheers kelvin

Im getting the 5 link built( for the front}, but Im thinking about trailing arms with, ( I think there Heim joints, not rose) for extra articulation.
How far can you get a watts link to work?

Originally Posted by Baffle

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How far can you get a watts link to work?

that is the question??????????????????????????? if they that good why have they not been incorperated in other extreme offroad applications

5link na mate you realy want a tragalated 4 link for the ultimate flex and no panhard

Slunnie, I just read your post in gold coast general. Cricky Im running around in circles here. I might just sit back and shut up for a while .
Either way I want more flex and I want it now

you reckon this bloke is running watts link