Upper And Lower Control Arms
 

I'm lookin at the next projects for plannin now. I keep lookin at the aftermarket adjustable control arms but they are out of my price range to buy. But lookin at them, they look to simple to make. A stainless bar with links on the ends appears to be all that they are. Am I missin somthin here. If that's the case I could make a full set for well under $200. The only thing I would need to buy would be the Left and Right turn ends and they're easy to come by.

I wouldnt even do that Dennis

I got me a set of the DT control arms that IIRC the lower one is one inch longet to help fpr propper geomitry since I did 2" lift up front

anyway they are very simple and I wished I had built my own....I have everything I need to do it

IMHO you dont need them to be adjustable

I have the Stainless scrap material available so that's a no brainer. I just keep thinkin there has to be more to them then meets the eye or why would anybody pay that much money for them. I've never looked at any close up and in person though so I'm clueless.

if you have access to a lathe to build some poly bushings for the knuckles than it should be a cake walk

This is what I am pondering for the ends. http://www.speedwaymotors.com/p/8663...and-Heims.html

I honestly dont see the need to adjust though............but if they make the correct one for it then that would make it easy

No real reason, just cause I can and they look cooler. And in the end that's all any of this is for. Right off the show room floor I never found anything I needed this truck to do that it wouldn't, but that hasn't stopped me from spendin money yet.

You are right, just a rigid set would do just fine and they would be almost free to make.

So why do folks buy these things.

For a rigid set I think I would just use a piece of solid bar stock, shaped to fit. Couldn't get any easier then that.

I would just get some 120 schd pipe...looks like prolly bout 1" and them machine then to accept a poly bushing myself

That same shop sells the rebuild materials to rebuild your own Heim Joints. I'm sure that could be incorporated into this home build, but sounds easier to just build the adjustable ends to me. Just weld the sleeves into the bar stock and screw the ends in.

go out there and look at the ones DT makes then copy them..........easy to do and they would be stronger than what yer talkin here