Sleeving trailing arms?

**Slunnie** · 17th February 2009, 09:51 PM

Originally Posted by rick130

I towed a Prado out of a culvert one day that had one that shape

One of the local blokes did the same thing to his coil rear Patrol. He's sporting nice pretty HD blue ones these days

I thnk the 3rds are good! We had this run where there were heaps bent like that. Sometimes they take a beating and other times it takes nothing to fold them up.

**rick130** · 17th February 2009, 09:53 PM

Originally Posted by hook

Your as bad as me.

Years not months to make things.

And I was only thinking today that I should get the key to his shed off his Mum (he works down the valley during the week and she lives over the road) and finish the damn things off while the weather is crap.

I was going to glue mine on with some 3M Scotchweld structural adhesive I have. It's usually used for gluing aircraft and racecar tubs together.
I can then honestly say they haven't been welded, and it also means I don't have to make a jig up to weld them too.

**Slunnie** · 17th February 2009, 09:55 PM

Originally Posted by rick130

And I was only thinking today that I should get the key to his shed off his Mum (he works down the valley during the week and she lives over the road) and finish the damn things off while the weather is crap.

I was going to glue mine on with some 3M Scotchweld structural adhesive I have. It's usually used for gluing aircraft and racecar tubs together.
I can then honestly say they haven't been welded, and it also means I don't have to make a jig up to weld them too.

Just slip them on and tack them, they'll be right.

**rick130** · 17th February 2009, 09:59 PM

They sure as hell won't bend, it's 40.5mm OD bar

**Slunnie** · 17th February 2009, 10:22 PM

I agree. I reckon they need to be made so that you can land on them and not have them bend. These ones I made that were 900mm IIRC so on the long side, but the stock was 50x12.5. I'm a big believer in building things that dont break. Likewise I'm not a fan of cranking suspension parts - they're also just stress points to me that are not necessary.

**long stroke** · 17th February 2009, 10:29 PM

Thats more like it

**long stroke** · 17th February 2009, 10:30 PM

This is the ring thing i was talking about....

TIM.

**PAT303** · 17th February 2009, 10:30 PM

So I take it these arms are all legal?.What would happen after a crash when people find out the things holding your diffs in were made at home in your shed?. Pat

**long stroke** · 17th February 2009, 10:32 PM

Originally Posted by PAT303

So I take it these arms are all legal?.What would happen after a crash when people find out the things holding your diffs in were made at home in your shed?. Pat

To tell you the truth it doesn't bother me

**Slunnie** · 17th February 2009, 10:35 PM

Originally Posted by PAT303

So I take it these arms are all legal?.What would happen after a crash when people find out the things holding your diffs in were made at home in your shed?. Pat

There is no reason for them to not be legal, they are not welded cast and the welding process used was appropriate for mild steel, they are not Cro-mo alloys that require post heat treatment etc. They were also made in a workshop, not a shed and I work metal as a profession. All moot anyway as they were not used on a road vehicle.

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