Outer Limits 4x4 Board

G'day all,

Just wondering If anyone knows where I can get HD Steering arms and HD Trailing arms to suit a Discoery Series I. I could make them, but I feel they are probably cheaper/easier to buy these days

Thanks

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MR Automotive in Brisbane are making the old HD Maxidrive steerling links

uninformed wrote:MR Automotive in Brisbane are making the old HD Maxidrive steerling links

I bent mine rather easily. I would go with the RoverTracks high clearance arm next time.

Micka wrote:

uninformed wrote:MR Automotive in Brisbane are making the old HD Maxidrive steerling links

I bent mine rather easily. I would go with the RoverTracks high clearance arm next time.

you bent a HD MD arm? drag link or track rod?

I wonder what makes the RT ones so much better??? I just looked at their specs and RT and MD are both the same OD, 32mm. The RT are close to 5mm wall thickness and the MD are 8mm wall thickness. RT are made from DOM and MD are made from euro-norm which I would think be very close to DOM spec.

any thoughts Mikca?

cheers,
Serg

Serg,

I bent my maxidrive trackrod by winching up a steep hill with the wheels off the ground,the ruts were very deep and no other lines to take.
With it bent it still survived the rest of the weekend and the drive home.
Straightened it in the press and has been fine since.

Eric

i bent mine like a bannana at janowen about 4mnths ago ,they did replace tho but never put it back on the car

Hey guys,

I was in no means saying a MD steering arm is unbendable. I was just a bit confused the way Mikca wrote his statement that he bent it so easy and not the RT one....Have a look at both, Unless RT are cromo I cant see how they are so much stronger??? what am I missing???

What you are missing, from my point of view anyway, is the position of the arm rather than the strength of it. I would buy the RoverTracks high clearance arm over the MD one purely because it is bent up out of where they most commonly snag on rocks. The strength of the material becomes a moot point when its far less likely to contact stray objects. Also, the arm will only be as strong as the TREs anyway.

Regardless of which one you go with, relocating the steering damper should be the first thing that any disco or rangie owner should do. RoverTracks also do a bolt on kit for this that requires no fabrication.

I should make it clear that I have no connection with RoverTracks other than being a happy customer. As I have been with MR Automotive for the past 9yrs.

Micka wrote:What you are missing, from my point of view anyway, is the position of the arm rather than the strength of it. I would buy the RoverTracks high clearance arm over the MD one purely because it is bent up out of where they most commonly snag on rocks. The strength of the material becomes a moot point when its far less likely to contact stray objects. Also, the arm will only be as strong as the TREs anyway.

Regardless of which one you go with, relocating the steering damper should be the first thing that any disco or rangie owner should do. RoverTracks also do a bolt on kit for this that requires no fabrication.

I should make it clear that I have no connection with RoverTracks other than being a happy customer. As I have been with MR Automotive for the past 9yrs.

thanks for clearing that up Micka

Serg