We have decided to try and build some extended front trailing arms out of stock arms. We built a jig for it last night out of my +2/+1 arms off the baja. Not sure how well it will work, but its not costing us anything but time right now so we figured why not give it a shot. I will post pics of the process in case anyone is interested.

Sounds interesting. I have thought about trying that. Post the pic's.

did you ever end up doing this? i've been interested in this idea for a while now...

there's a guy in michigan who makes them. he has a post on buggytrader along with a pic. i'm not sure how to copy and paste it here for you

It's a pretty straightforward process. Make sure you have the welder turned up pretty high. They need to be strong.

Pictures are always great!

[quote='FlaBaja']We have decided to try and build some extended front trailing arms out of stock arms. We built a jig for it last night out of my +2/+1 arms off the baja. Not sure how well it will work, but its not costing us anything but time right now so we figured why not give it a shot. I will post pics of the process in case anyone is interested.[/quote]


Did you make seperate jigs for your top and bottom arms? The top arms need to actually be 3/16" or so closer to c

I did make seperate jigs for the upper and lower trailing arms. Unfortunately thats about as far as we got My buddy was going to build a baja, but changed his mind after seeing the buggies on this site so now we are building him a woods buggy! So we put the arms on hold until he figured out what he was going to do. he actually bought back the green one that he sold earlier. After we get the baja done for D&K we will start on his buggy.

Mad Mike made these at his shop. He has put A LOT of time into the geometry of these. I would say HE is the man to talk to when it comes to fabricating trailing arms.

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just out of curiousity,,,, how much would madmike want to build a set of these arms and a set of drop spindles?? that is, if he was interested in making and selling them.

[quote='FlaBaja']I did make seperate jigs for the upper and lower trailing arms. Unfortunately thats about as far as we got My buddy was going to build a baja, but changed his mind after seeing the buggies on this site so now we are building him a woods buggy! So we put the arms on hold until he figured out what he was going to do. he actually bought back the green one that he sold earlier. After we get the baja done for D&K we will start on his buggy.[/quote]

Sounds

Send me an E-Mail and I will tell you what the options are. Also worth noting, DVS1's new buggy, the one in the pic above, is a ball joint chassis.
madmike15001@yahoo.com

Hmmm, ball joint beam / combo spindles. Seems to me you could make some money with that setup. That would sure save guys building bajas a hell of alot of work switching to king/link beams. Have you had a chance to really test them?

Nothing to really test, just a few differences between them.
They are a huge pain in the $ss to make. They are expencive and you need to buy a bunch of stuff to make it work, link pins, steering rack, shocks, then alter your shock towers, just to mention a few things. Besides that, riding season is upon us, and I intend on doing a bunch of riding this year. Can't build stuff and ride at the same time.