DEFENDER DRIVERS

Defender200Tdi · 17th April 2006, 08:24 PM

After recently installing front & rear Maxidrives, I also worried about the strength of the standard trailing arms. I had some made up from 44mm solid bar, because that's what my mate had on hand (for free). They're fairly heavy, but no more than the front hockey sticks.

Here they are with some of the remains of the skinny original arms shown for comparison:

I elected to keep them straight and go with the LRA offset bushes to compensate for the lift. Here's the offset bushes compared to standard:

The new arms installed:

The bush angle looks about right now:

Hopefully they should do the job. If I bend these then I'm in real strife.

Paul

**rick130** · 17th April 2006, 09:15 PM

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><snip>44mm solid bar[/b][/quote]

8O 8O 8O 8O thats big.....8)

**YRVGreen** · 18th April 2006, 09:31 AM

is there some where that stock piles this kind of thing as a standard?
can I use d2 trailing arms on the fender?
Defender200Tdi your set up looks impressive, how much does the angled bushes cost so i can compare that to the price of getting some bent bars,

**Slunnie** · 18th April 2006, 09:38 AM

Aloa can supply the HD links that he has.

The D2 radius arms wont fit a Defender. The designs are totally different at both the rear and front.

Defender200Tdi · 18th April 2006, 10:42 AM

Originally posted by YRVGreen
is there some where that stock piles this kind of thing as a standard?
can I use d2 trailing arms on the fender?
Defender200Tdi your set up looks impressive, how much does the angled bushes cost so i can compare that to the price of getting some bent bars,

The offset bushes are available from Les Richmond Automotive www.lrautomotive.com.au for about $80 each. LRA also do laminated trailing arms (basically the originals that have been sleeved).

My trailing arms were free because we (mate & I) made them ourselves, and yes, 44mm solid bar is way overkill for the job, but it's what I could get for nuthin. Anything else I would have had to pay for, and I didn't much feel like running the bars down to something sensible (like say, 35mm) in the lathe.

Paul

**aloa9061** · 18th April 2006, 01:47 PM

I have now had these bars on for a year and so far so good, they have taken some big hits an dno damage at all. i'm pretty happy with them

**barney** · 19th April 2006, 07:34 PM

this has been a long time comming andy, i hope they're worth the wait

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