suspension links-which is stronger?

[edman87k5]

You'd think 1/4" solid aluminum rod would never bend huh? I have bent it That was a link that was almost 7" long though, so if you stay short, the likelyhood of bending it is slim....but there's always a longer fall :lol: On average, thick wall tube is stronger than solid rod of the same size.



I think savagecamaro is the only one who mislabeled one of his pieces, but everyone else seems to be right on with what is what.;-)

My 1/4" rod is high carbon steel, not aluminum. Unless it is 2' long, nothing is going to bend it! it is tapped and uses 6-32 grade 8 bolts with the heads cut off. The traxxis ends will disentigrate before my links get more than scratches on them.
I only built them this way because that is what I had laying around, therefore =free other than the traxxis ends.

 

[savagecamaro]

You'd think 1/4" solid aluminum rod would never bend huh? I have bent it That was a link that was almost 7" long though, so if you stay short, the likelyhood of bending it is slim....but there's always a longer fall :lol: On average, thick wall tube is stronger than solid rod of the same size.

i was trying to bend a 6" piece of 1/4" .049 walled nd it seemed like you would have to fall like 5 feet to bend one of them, with a like truck like the wk. but im going to use 3/16 .049 TUBE...for reasons preivously stated

 

[BJoe]

I'm using the Lundsford Ti pushrods for the Revo with Savage 21/25/X/SS tierod ends for the lowers and Pro-15 Maxx Ti tierods with AX-10 UCA rodends for mine.

 

[Offroader5]

My 1/4" rod is high carbon steel, not aluminum. Unless it is 2' long, nothing is going to bend it! it is tapped and uses 6-32 grade 8 bolts with the heads cut off. The traxxis ends will disentigrate before my links get more than scratches on them.
I only built them this way because that is what I had laying around, therefore =free other than the traxxis ends.

Ahh, my bad...I assumed you were talking about aluminum. Yeah, that sounds pretty beefy.

One bad thing about making your links so strong is that it now puts more stress on the mounts and the other pieces...but that's the way it goes....once you upgrade one thing, you gotta do the rest of the truck too :lol:

i was trying to bend a 6" piece of 1/4" .049 walled nd it seemed like you would have to fall like 5 feet to bend one of them, with a like truck like the wk. but im going to use 3/16 .049 TUBE...for reasons preivously stated

5 feet :lol:....the rocks at my crawl spot are all bigger than that. I rolled my WK rig off an 8-9 foot tall granite boulder on it's maiden crawl after the buildup. It broke the chassis, and one of the servo horns. The chassis broke because the links were strong and it passed on the shock to the next weakest link. I redesigned the chassis and refabbed it after that. "thumbsup"