35" Trailing Arms

[mmchaplin]

I am hoping that someone will be able to save me some time wandering around a wreckers looking for trailing arm approx. 35" long. I want to use them in a Sierra so any trailing arm from a larger car should be more than strong enough. I would prefer something that is cheap and readily available. I am going to end up modifying one of the ends so anything longer would probably do. I am just trying to save myself some fabrication time

[chunderlicious]

landcruisers are the longest i think and they are like 700 eye to eye patrol are offset 50mm ish and re 660 eye to eye

[badger]

jackeroo and frontera are longer than cruiser arms but not sure by how much

[ozy1]

personally i think your better offr building trailing arms from scratch using some tuff material, if these are going to be your lower arms, they are gunna cop abuse, so build em right the first time,

grave your self some heavy walled tube or some hollow bar, and do tnhe job once,

[Slunnie]

I've made links and if you're using bushed ends that are just sooo quick to make, and it's probably quicker to make them from scratch than to modify them.

These bits you can buy cheap at 3rd's productions. Patrol bushes and rings I think they were.


I used 50x25 MS and cut it to whatever length. It was about $100/m I think from Blackwoods.

And about 1 hour to setup, weld and press bushes for the pair.

[mmchaplin]

Thanks to everyone for their input.

I think Slunnie is right and it is probably easier to just get the materials and make them from scratch.

I'll let you know how I go.

[11_evl]

im setting my sierra up for coils as well and i got 96 jackaroo rear lowers for mine and they are nearly 35", prob closer to 36"

[uninformed]

look at the chassis end of a landrover or disco(early) or range rover(early)

they are threaded and go into a bush rather than a cylinder bush,

i believe they don't bind up as much because the axle travels in an arch(across the vehicle, not front to back)

cheers, serg

[mmchaplin]

uniformed, that is a good observation. You would already have some form of lateral location so the trailing arm would be free to move which ever way it wanted. This would allow heaps of twist. How long are the std Rover ones? Then all I need to do is make up the mounts on the axle and chassis. Good thinking!!!