Outer Limits 4x4 Board

g'day all,

just wondering your thougths on a 5 link set up for an 80... it only goin to be used as a 4wd so to speak so i realise road handling goin to be a bit of a bastard..... any advice/thoughts would be greatly appreciated

they are 5 link in the rear anyway arent they??

if you mean front i woul just X-link it.

from what i have seen and read i would go with the X-link over a 5 link. I will be in my 80 at some stage.
steve

does anyone have pics of a xlink in the front, can anyone explane how they work please.

It alows the front of the radius arm to move up and down when articulating but in the same spot for road drving so the diff wont roll under power or braking seen some dodgy home made setups http://www.dobbinengineering.com/index.htm is the real deal

I like the way the rear of my 80 flexes, so I have been thinking for some time now to try are copy the set up (i.e. length or rods and hieght off diff etc) on the front.

If it does not work I could then but the stronger arms on the back and go back to drawing board.

I do not have any info on what makes a five link work as in ratio of arms lengths etc so I though copy what works and try that to start with...

Search on pirate forum if not someone on here will have a link

stinger wrote:I like the way the rear of my 80 flexes, so I have been thinking for some time now to try are copy the set up (i.e. length or rods and hieght off diff etc) on the front.

If it does not work I could then but the stronger arms on the back and go back to drawing board.

I do not have any info on what makes a five link work as in ratio of arms lengths etc so I though copy what works and try that to start with...

I would look at the xlink they appear to work well.

bj on roids wrote:

stinger wrote:I like the way the rear of my 80 flexes, so I have been thinking for some time now to try are copy the set up (i.e. length or rods and hieght off diff etc) on the front.

If it does not work I could then but the stronger arms on the back and go back to drawing board.

I do not have any info on what makes a five link work as in ratio of arms lengths etc so I though copy what works and try that to start with...

This was purely from a sump clearance perspective

what I was trying to say is the my rear 5 linkcan have one tyre in the guard and one at full drop.

If I could get the front to do that then that would be the ultimate.

my thoughts are i had been fighting with 5 link for over 4 years. it not just the road driving which is the problem. i found with a big lift you could not drive straight at big steps. because of the angle of the 5 link arms you get the feeling that you are driving over the top of top of the front end. i have not heard how much about the road side of the X Link but i have seen that it works well off road.

Can the crosslinks be locked into place for onroad driving? If they can it would make the 4bie perform like factory. I know they are briliant off road.
Here is a pic of an 80 with a crosslink. I think he is off this forum.

midi73 wrote:Can the crosslinks be locked into place for onroad driving? If they can it would make the 4bie perform like factory. I know they are briliant off road.
Here is a pic of an 80 with a crosslink. I think he is off this forum.

You are not the first person to say this. Ruff mentioned it to me a while ago, and I tend to agree, shouldnt be that hard to make a pin up for it either

bj on roids wrote:

midi73 wrote:Can the crosslinks be locked into place for onroad driving? If they can it would make the 4bie perform like factory. I know they are briliant off road.
Here is a pic of an 80 with a crosslink. I think he is off this forum.

You are not the first person to say this. Ruff mentioned it to me a while ago, and I tend to agree, shouldnt be that hard to make a pin up for it either

That one is a home made copy of the X-Link and it is also pinned now I believe and from all accounts drives great on road.