KW arms

Hmm I like the looks but I can lay 20's on stocks so I guess I'll stick with'em.

I'm having problems with the upper KW Nissan arms.The upper balljoints don't have enough articulation.The truck lays fine with a 215/35/18 tire,and 2" drop spindles,but the balljoints are at there limits layed out.The bad part is the balljoints bind when the truck is lifted,so there's only about 6" of travel.The arms are first rate in quality,but the upper balljoints need some serious work.

hey bro, get ahold of Eric, he's made some changes to those arms to help, may have been after your order but im sure he'll have some insight on how to help ya with that

i had some other arms made by a place here in australia, and i had the problem you guys seem to be having, it would only just lay out, and the lift was limited to maybe 6 inches, but my kustom werks arms are sick, apart the fact that i cant get the boot to sit on there sweet, but ill get that soughted when they come back from chrome

Originally posted by blazedbowtie82



I got your fix sitting in my garage Mike. I just need your address again.

you got a pm

heres some pics try the first link if no t then second ull see the KW arms caption. some pics are witht he boot and without and with shims and without with out the shims the ball joint binds up alot sooner.

http://community.webshots.com/album/548805238QFBqzl

http://community.webshots.com/user/tenagator2

THE SCREW-IN BALLJOINTS WE USE ON THE UPPER ARMS HAS MORE ARTICULATION THAN A UNI-BALL - COREY - YOU NEED YOU RAISE YOUR UPPER ARM MOUNT .5" AND YOU PROBLEM WILL BE SOLVED AND YOUR MAZDA WILL BASICALLY HAVE THE SAME GEOMETRY AS A TOYOTA SINCE YOU ARE RUNNING TOYOTA SPINDLES - AND FOR THE NISSAN ARMS - WE HAVE A FRONTIER WITH A HARDBODY SUSPENSION CLIP THAT LAYS ON 20'S EASILY - AND GETS ABOUT 11" OF LIFT - I CAN'T SEE HOW ALL THESE LIKE MODEL TRUCKS CAN BE THAT DIFFERENT

He paid for the arms so that you said would lay on 20s no problem. Now he has to raise the control arm mounts to lay on an 18 or 19. Is Kustomwerks covering the labour on that? didnt think so.

mike (tenagator) take a pic of the whole setup (get the upper and lower in the pic, and take a pic of it layed out and lifted all the way up.

Edited: 3/22/2006 7:08:54 AM by iLLairgasm

Originally posted by KUSTOMWERKS



THE SCREW-IN BALLJOINTS WE USE ON THE UPPER ARMS HAS MORE ARTICULATION THAN A UNI-BALL - COREY - YOU NEED YOU RAISE YOUR UPPER ARM MOUNT .5" AND YOU PROBLEM WILL BE SOLVED AND YOUR MAZDA WILL BASICALLY HAVE THE SAME GEOMETRY AS A TOYOTA SINCE YOU ARE RUNNING TOYOTA SPINDLES - AND FOR THE NISSAN ARMS - WE HAVE A FRONTIER WITH A HARDBODY SUSPENSION CLIP THAT LAYS ON 20'S EASILY - AND GETS ABOUT 11" OF LIFT - I CAN'T SEE HOW ALL THESE LIKE MODEL TRUCKS CAN BE THAT DIFFERENT

Eric I bought these arms under the impression that I will layout on 20"s no problem, you've said they do yourself as well. I wouldn't have spent $450 on arms if they were hardly going to lay on 18's with a 2" drop spindle.

I shouldn't have to go thru the hassle of raising my mounts 1/2".

You've said you have sold numerous arms like this and im the only one that has had the issue. Something has got to be wrong somewhere.

I need to get this resolved asap so I can finish bagging the truck here. its been sitting doin nothing for almost 2 weeks now because of the arms.

I called you and left you a message yesterday and havn't heard back.

We need to get this resolved soon, I need to get this stuff finished.

Thanks.