slipjoint 3 link?

I was watching muscle car TV this morning and they put a 3 link over their little fox body mustang, but it was different. The single end actually would slide in/out of the "wishbone" part. Seems like it could help with the long travel that some of the minis are getting? Would it help pinion angle and all any?

That's what I'm putting on my dually... but it's more of a track locater. It's just to keep my rearend centered... We are using it with a parallel 4 link. Works better than a panhard and in my eyes is stronger than a watts link. I dunno how good it would work with a 2 link.. It wouldn't have anything to do with pinion angle..

I've seen a lot of those tricky parts and pieces that make things look neat, but there is no reason to use something like that on a mini. They are mostly designed to aid with traction and are not at all needed for a mini.

my car is set up with the same link works great only thang is i have to lube the shaft every once in a blue moon.but will let it get a lot of lift

i built a wishbone for my truck but i made all my pivot points in line... all the pivots pivot together, no need for a slider. i was going to do my wishbone with a slide until i built the plate that sandwiches between the T/A rearend cover and the rear end. check out my profile and you can see how i did this.

K.I.S.S. - Keep It Simple Stupid...

Tony- That looks good. Nicely done.

I'm not saying that you can't use something like that, but there is plenty of room under the bed of a mini to build a system that doesn't need anything fancy. You could easily get 24" of travel out of a simple 4-link with zero issues, it just needs to addressed properly.

Originally posted by BioMax



Tony- That looks good. Nicely done.

I'm not saying that you can't use something like that, but there is plenty of room under the bed of a mini to build a system that doesn't need anything fancy. You could easily get 24" of travel out of a simple 4-link with zero issues, it just needs to addressed properly.

i agree i did a ranger that i tested 21 inches with a normal 4 link that, it didnt go out of wack any were, it would have gone more if i had a taller jack and a longer break line lol.

Does anyone have a pic of the slipjoint 3 link? i havent seen one.

Originally posted by laync10



i built a wishbone for my truck but i made all my pivot points in line... all the pivots pivot together, no need for a slider. i was going to do my wishbone with a slide until i built the plate that sandwiches between the T/A rearend cover and the rear end. check out my profile and you can see how i did this.

K.I.S.S. - Keep It Simple Stupid...

why not use just a panhard bar rather than a wishbone? I like the setup, but how does it work with the pivot for the wishbone below the axle?

we aren't gonna use a panhard because it's a dually and there's no room for it to move side to side back there. SO it's gonna be a parallel 4 link with a wishbone for keeping the rearend centered thru the range of motion. On my mazda I had a 2 link with a cross bar.. a link from the front of one bar to the rear of the other. had a bushing on each end so it had a bit of articulation. Silverstar uses a cross bar that's just a piece of flat plate welded inbetween the 2 bars behind the rearend. I've never seen anyone have any luck with this. I've seen several cross links like I had one several trucks and have never seen a problem. It keeps the rear from having any movement from side to side.

A fully parallel 4-link has no roll-center, so the wishbone only acts as a lateral limiter and gives the system a roll-center. That's it.