making spindles

haha, A control arm I made has made it into Max's section. Those are 3/4" heims with spacers that reduce the bolt to a 5/8". There is a machined insert in the spindle to get rid of the taper. The heim doesn't bind throughout the travel as I am running a stock lower ball joint which limits it. You will get the same travel from either a standard heim or a heim ball/ uniball, if they are both the same size ball. If I were to make another set of these arms I would have just used a uniball. It would have allowed me to bring the bent tube out farther, plus I can't really adjust the heim out there as it will adjust more than one aspect of the geometry. That is because both tubes are bent, even though the back one isn't bent all that much.

---------------------------------------------Originally posted by pimptruckman92 if i could use heims for a fraction of the cost and get the same results would be ideal but they seem like they would restrict the steering more than uniballs.---------------------------------------------

Both heims and uniballs use essentially the same spherical bearing, so their misalignment angles are also similar. But if you are saving enough money on heims to make the choice easy, you are buying cheap heims.

good point. and uniballs are the way i was wanting to go.

Uniballs look like super models!