Custom Radius Arm Suspension and Crossmember - [SuperDUkota - Dakota + Super Duty Axles] Part 5 

Nice custom work! I like your use of CAD (Cardboard Aided Design)!

this has helped loads with the rear end design of my trackday van, great video.

Looks great.

Great Fab skills !

Excelente trabajo todo lo construye a la perfección y cuenta con la herramienta necesaria felicidades

Awsome editing bro.👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Hell yeah brother

Truly magical workmanship skills!

Can always weld a long gusset on top or bottom of control arm to strengthen.

Just finished making brackets for a three link on a 2002 SD axle that will end up in a 77 F150. I have, after much reading and consultation, decided to leave the spring perch intact and attach one half of the custom made bracket to it while the other half attaches to the narrow portion of exposed steel tube. The nodular casting is plated with 1/4" steel for increased weld attachment and the bracket welds to the plating. Muggy Weld 75 for cast to steel and I am tigging the whole thing. Cutting the cast back may have been easier, but making a contoured bracket was a day of experimental fabbing that was quite enjoyable. I had initial concerns over strength, but it seemed that when I started paying attention to experience old timers, instead of internet professionals, those concerns melted away. It all comes down to proper filler, proper heat, proper cool down and proper technique. Regardless, I was advised to draw the line when looking at radius arm versus 3 link. Too much sway/torque interplay with radius arms on the cast, cutting it back as you have done would have been the only reasonable way to use radius arms without stressing the cast in every simple turn and bump. Dang thing has enough roll in it already to scare the wife around slow curves with stock radius arms, so sway bars were in order anyway. Rock on!

Your build is coming along nicely! I’m picking up a parts truck tomorrow for axles. Can’t wait to sas my 00 quad cab, love the truck but there is a severe lack of parts in the off-road market for these trucks.

good👍👍

Sweet

I love watching your off-road fabrication videos. I've read tons of times online about radius arms binding. Would you please explain why? Thank you.

Awesome work my friend! You made the comment that you don't like three-links for the street, in your next video on the track bar can you tell us the pros and cons of the three link vs radius arms?

Aloha from Hawaii I have the only Sas 02 Sas Dakota 416cid superduty axles 5.13 Yukon gears. Radius a setup all my stuff is from ballistic fabrication less my 12” coil overs on 37”. I built it 10 years ago and never had an issue with my suspension. What did you do about your motor mounts? Did you connect them together with a crossmember before or after you finished your custom lift which I totally love!!!!! Killer build

What you call trigger welding is actually named pulse welding and it is not the strongest at all however 80% of what makes a weld is the material and prep and you had nice thick metal but you cleaned it well and when you were welding you maintained heat in the puddle the whole time even though it got big at the end

Is there a reason you didnt opt for the weld in threaded tube adapter and threaded the material itself for your upper links ?

I just started doing my own solid axle swap my own Dakota after I destroyed my third cv axle and wheel bearing

How are those joints holding up and how do they compare to Johnnie Joints?

Any updates, interested in how the radius arms flexed out ?

I really need to ditch my abrasive chop saw and buy one of them

What software do you use? Solidworks? That to .stp file?

What program do you use to make your cut files? TIA

Why did you want to keep it so low?

Is that axle at ride height?

where did you get the joints?

hello greetings, very good videos, what is the name of the machine to cut and design the brackets? Thanks

Should have welded those fish plates uphill and not downhill.

So how much to have you do mine

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The only people saying you're doing a terrible job are you guys who haven't touched a welder since highschool shop class

Hey!!! You take to long between videos. The suspense is killing me lol. Oh and you a suck up to the wife lol.