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10-12-2009, 04:48 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: South Dakota
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|  Link setup on TCS 4 link plates and boulder chassis
I put together a TCS boulder chassis with 4 link mounts this weekend and sorta hit a bind on the front 4 link plate. Right now I have the links mounted on top of the plate, is that correct? The upper links look perfectly even with the lower links, but it seems like I lost a ton of articulation. |
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10-12-2009, 09:11 PM
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| Suck it up!   Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Arkansas
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Pictures would help if you can get them. Otherwise you want the uppers parallel to the ground, not to the lowers. On the rear plate, try to put the drivers side link on top of the plate and the passenger side link on the bottom. This will help dial out torque twist. |
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10-13-2009, 05:57 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: South Dakota
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I'll post up some pics tonight. Gotta charge the digicam battery. Thanks!
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10-13-2009, 04:46 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: South Dakota
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|  [/IMG] [/IMG] [/IMG]Had to go the photobucket route. My digicam's dumbed down photos are still over 1mb in size. |
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10-14-2009, 07:27 PM
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10-29-2009, 01:27 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: SoCal
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From the pics it looks like you could move the upper shock mounts 2 holes inward and that would lower your ride height to get your links closer to parallel with the ground. Although you have have to take into account that the further your shocks are from vertical, torque twist will be more pronounced. Another idea is to add a fuel line spacer under the piston inside the shock to limit the amount of down travel and get the links closer to parallel with the deck. Or drill another hole in the chassis just below the current mounting point of the upper arms and move that mounting point down, which in turn will affect anti-squat.... I think you get the idea, that any changes made to a link type suspension effects handling in more than one way. It's all about compromise and get it to match your driving style. good luck!
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10-29-2009, 03:35 PM
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| Suck it up! Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Arkansas
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Definately need to get the ride height down. I'd go with limiting the shock travel like greedy said. I bet you've got tons of articulation...
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11-14-2009, 03:09 AM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: saipan cnmi
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keep in mind that chassis might be designed differently. by looking at your setup, you could limit the shocks, or you could run some shorter shocks. ive seen people running the revo shocks in a droop configuration.
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11-17-2009, 02:37 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Nor Cal
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Run the 72-103 axial shocks or install the bumper inside of shock body to lower ride height. And as mentioned above, run the upper links in the rearward holes. And i would run a little longer lower front links than you have, and in your case, install the upper front links under the plate - for less binding problems. Looks like your wheelbase is a little on the short side too. The longer lowers will help with that. Tinkering and experimenting is half the fun of crawling  Hope this helps |
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