Easy short GQ lower link fix.

[Wendle]

This was a little experiment that I did a couple weeks ago that resulted in me getting smacked in the head with a bolt. I took it out for it's first real flogging on saturday and it performed very well, so I though I'd start this thread.
The pics tell the story, but basically, the SWB GQ chassis tapers in at exactly the right spot, and at the right angle to give you a nice lower link that is 5deg shallower in pitch, and triangulated in about 250mm to help flatten out the roll axis quite a bit.
Now that I know it works nice, I have to try and make the mount look as sexy as the one above it that Sam and Sandy at overkill dreamed up
On my setup, changin that link drops the antisquat from ~110% to ~65%
On a standard SWB GQ 5-link rear with 4" coils it will bring it down from about 160 (!) to around 100, but someone needs to try it to see if the triangulation is too much for the panhard to take..

[Wendle]

vei

[Wendle]

not the greatest pic, but you can see the white bushing at the chassis end of the link..

[duncan]

Saw the same sort of set up on the red GQ ute of Fergasons Sheet metal that was featured in 4x4 monthly a couple of years ago didnt register then what they had done to the car but after running mine up the 30 degree ramp and dropping the rear shocks of you could see how the diff if pulled forward at extreme travel was thinking of doing this myself just didnt no how far forward to move the mount would it make much of a difference by bringing the mount inside the chassis and having straight arms instead of outside the chassis as the stock ones are with off set arms the red utes were still outside didnt Chezzy also do this to his shorty post some more pics of your 4 link rear set up as well

[Wendle]

to do a ute or a wagon with the triangulated lowers you would have to put a crossmember in, I think? The chassis on the SWB has the taper in just the right spot to make it easy.