good shots

whats the going rate for those trailing arms and bushings?

and are you leaving the sway bars in after all this is done?

 

You'll see.....I have the front half way done, but just waiting for some of the missing poly's and other misc. stuff, which should have in this week. If it is all here by Thursday, I should have it completed by Friday and the pics up that night.

I actually selected the oranges and Justin agreed. I've had a few years of experience with other brands, but only on the street or on the road course cars. On our old Disco, we only replaced bad bushings with OEM bushings, which does work well, if you have NO LEAKS. I cant wait to get it out on the trails to see what it feels like.

*correction

I think I paid, in combination, around $300, $250 for the arms and the bushings are probably around $60 or more...? I bought the entire bushing kit.

I am looking to get disconnects in the future. I've seen the X-Engineering one...which i like, but costly. I would like the simple Jeep set up where, you can just disconnect, via pin, and hang them on the frame somehow. To get to our destination, there are a lot of freeway and twisties, so i NEED those swaybars. Thou, I do love the Disco Lean (with no attached sways)..

 

right on, definitely curious to see what you end up doing with the sway bars.

 

I have a set of orange polys I will be taking off the 3-link cause they are not the right size if anybody needs a set, when I get around to it.

I would keep the sway bars if you plan on towing or do a home made disconnect which is pretty easy on the d1's.

 

Jake what part are the orange ones you have for?
D1 disconnects are easy to make. You can get the bushings for $.75 each from RovahFarm. Everything else can be had from a hardware store.

 

If anyone has a link to how to make'em...send it my way....yeah!! another project!!

 

and then post it! hah

 

Here's a pic of the individual parts you'll need.
Four 5/8" fender washers
Two hairpin cotter pins
Two 5/8"x3" clevis pins
Two ~1.5" pieces of steel tubing, I forget what size
4 sway bar bushings from RovahFarm


Here's a pic of them assembled.


I used to make these but got lazzzzzzzy.

 

Thanks!

Any pics where those are installed? Trying to get the concept of how they work with the stock links.....

 

Basically the sway bars are connected to the axle using ball joints. You replace the bolt connecting the sway to the ball joint with the clevis pin. When I get home I'll post some better instructions.