Thread: It happened in a flash.

ouch, I hate expensive weekends

Geez mate twisted metal and grippy tyres go together eh

For the mount or the trailng arm? trailing arm is easy, get a piece of 3mm thick pipe that slides over the trailng arm, cut it to length, drill a few holes in it, slide it on and fill with silicone to stop it moving around.
As for the mount, weld more braces on it?

I'll have the guy/people who's doing the bracket fix put a couple of extra braces on it somehow.

The 3mm tube sounds like a good idea.

The factory lower links fold up way too easily, we've done a few of them. For your setup you really need to go to HD ones like the 3rd's Productions or similar otherwise you will probably keep folding up more of them. This said, I've never seen one fold downwards before, all have been up. The tailshafts break because the when the axle comes under the car it levers up onto the tailshaft until either the axle stops or the tailshaft breaks - as you no doubt now already know. If you do get bent lower links, also make sure that they are gusseted otherwise they will still fold up also, irrespective of how strong the manufacturer claims they are.

Looks like a good hill. Where did it happen?

G'day All, Hope the fellow with the amber bottle in his hand was a passenger (cause it looks like a beer bottle) that would the last thing you need an accident caused by alcohol looked like a fun hill though cheers Dennis

I'll try and get some map co-ordinates and track names so you can find the hill for yourselves.

I think this is a link to the video that my daughter took from the back seat. It's not great quality and the event happens in the last 3 seconds. The file is about 10Meg.

http://s136.photobucket.com/albums/q...t=P1140843.flv