RE-did my 4 link with pics

This is a setup I just finished up on a ranger at the shop. Its not a mazda, no, and its definetly more work than NEEDS to be done, but the idea is there. 2x3 crossmember notched for the driveshaft.

Here is the crossmember that you dont see. Its under the cab, but it would work anywhere clearance is needed. Its 2x2 1/4" wall with a piece of 8" tube and a piece of 5" tube and a bit of plating. Its all stuff that can be bought at scrap yards if it needed to be.

My truck. Forward Tri 4 link.

Also, I sell axle tabs for pretty cheap. I will even sell this kid a full 16 tab kit for $50 plus shipping just so no one ever has to see those square things again.

nice pics man did you brace the upper link bars on the ranger you did?

Hey Corey, I don't think Baha is giving you a hard time for what you said, but the way you went about saying it. Not only that, but sending the link to your buddy to have him back you up and chime in himself and spreading it all over SSM isn't helping either, its making a mockery of the situation.

What should I do Mike... just sit back and tell the kid he did a good job?

He obviously learnt very little from the first time he did it, so he's gonna have to learn somehow.

As for Joel joining... all I did was show him the pics... i didn't even tell him they were from here...

Im in the wrong though... this work is splendid!

No not at all... you gotta be honest. Not only for his safety but for the others on his local roads as well. But lines like "this is really ghetto" and "how can you even look at this and think its good" is not helping the situation... probably hindering it. Don't get me wrong, to a point you are right. But on the other hand you can tell he did build something and did it proudly. Scary, but proudly. So instead of bashing the shit out of it, let him know what he did wrong, show him pics of how its done right... try to help the situation instead of being the big kid w/ a magnified glass. You obviously know a LOT more about this than he does, you have a ton more experience, and I do not doubt you at all. HELP HIM. And by this I don't mean driving over to his house and doing it for him... but explaining things threw instead of poking him with a stick. Maybe I’m in the wrong... who knows.

this is, hands down, a quadruple chuck norris situation

make a new crossmember out of 2x2 at the least. and gusset it where it meets the frame. your wishbone bar looks fine, can't really tell you if your tabs are bad since we can't see the weld, but they sho do look oogleh. just buy some new tabs bro. they aren't that expensive, new tabs for all your bars would run you under 50bucks with shipping from SD or gravity-werx. what really throws off your setup is the tabs being rugged and the crossmember, everything else looks fine. the problem with your crossmember is that you are running a wishbone 3link. no panhard bar is there to hold the axle centered, so everytime you take a turn the axle relies on the wishbone and that crossmember to keep it in place. you really have to have good welds on the single jointed part of the wishbone, and a good crossmember. what you could do to make it simpler to where you will not have to rely on top notch welds is make it a 3link with a panhard. the 3rd link will just hold the axle from wrapping, and the panhard will center the axle. more bars you have to hold the axle in each direction forces act on it, the easier it is to each suspension component (bushings, tabs, etc.)

do as you please

and hey man, read the posts, no way someone has said his work was splendid, top notch, or chuck norris good...i re-read the posts, the only thing said was that it was not a 4link

i hear ya though, someone had to say it first. but you didn't have to be so harsh. chuck norris would have ran

and that is nice work illblazer, just put a gusset under the upper 4link bar on that ranger, that will bend eventually, especially with that much mech. adv.

that canty looks good

Meh... that was deserving of it.

I'll send you a pic when that bar bends. Its 1.5" 1/4 wall with the bag mount thats like 8" long and distributes the force to 2 points on the bar. Its not all concentrated at the center of the bag. It would have to bend the bar and the 1/4" plate mounts. Its not bending.