Nick,
I've done them 2 diferent ways.One is to buy some suitable rose joints from
your local bearing service,cut your standard arms and weld in a couple of nuts
or a threaded box section.The good thing with the rose joints is that when you
run a lot of caster ( 6 deg) you don't have to worry about the rubber bushes
chewing out.The bad thing is that the cops don't like them and made me take
them off.The other way is to make some up like the ones that whiteline use.Just
cut some standard arms in half and weld some 10mm plate to each half. weld a
nut to one side of them and bolt them up using a lock nut.This should give you
around 2deg neg camber and if you want any more just add some shim between the
plate or fit some offset strut tops.The only problem with this method is that
it chews the rubbers out when running a lot of caster.I usually run about 4deg
pos caster with these.I was told by a guy who had the plate type arms that he
had been using them for 20 years on his rally car and they had never given him
any problems.If you can weld give it a go it cost me nothing to make mine just
a couple of hours.Have a look at the whiteline ones and copy them.
Andrew Smith
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> Listers,
> How do you make adjustable lower control arms?
> Is it as dodgy as cutting your standard arms and welding in a threaded rod?
> Does anyone sell them ready-made?
> Who (in Sydney) is a good person to make them for me?
>
> For safety reasons I would prefer longer fixed length arms though.
>
> They will have to be road legal.
> Preferably using bushes not rose-joints.
>
> Thanks
> Nick
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