Off Road 4-Link

[vtblazer]

Any off road 4-link set ups here?
Looking to do a 4-link on the rear of my 1st gen rock crawler this winter and starting to do the homework.

Or is this a lowered/slammed/bagged/draggin kinda suspension section?

[HotRodYJ]

I built a triangulated 4 link on the rear of my Jeep about a year ago. I just winged it at the time and it still worked great, but I would recommend using one of the many 4-link calculators to get everything just right. Mine had a little more rear steer than I wanted but other than that it worked great. If I had used a calculator first, I would have seen the rear steer and could have designed that out of it. If I did it again for a long travel off-road suspension, I would definetly do a double triangulated set-up. That should eliminate all rear steer completely. Hard to get ride of completely with single triangulation.

I built my links from 1.5 OD, 0.25" wall DOM with weld in bungs and 3/4 x 5/8 QA1 heims. Never broke or bent anything. www.qscomponents.com was the cheapest I found for rod end kits. Good luck with yours.

[vtblazer]

Thanks for the link.

Trying to shuffle through ALL the different set ups and 'opinions' on those set ups.

Starting to look like the frame is going to cause issue, might be easier to loose the back section and simply do a tube build that works around the suspension.