runnerfreak88

does any one on here think it would be possible to make some long travel ifs a-arms i have friends who can fab anything and a friend who is a awesome welder does any one think it is possible

AxleIke

anything is possible.

deathrunner

I believe it would be best to get measurements off of a prebuilt set of arms, such as total chaos, camburg, jd fab, etc. That way you know it will cycle correctly and fit teh axles if you go 4wd.

runnerfreak88

thats what i was thinking would any one have those

Sonofmayhem

ive seen it done on an atv, dont see why it cant be done on a truck. everything needs to be the same though. i.e. length, type of metal, etc. or else it wont align. It would be very tedious work.

Yota82

I made my own with some friends. It's hard to get the angles right and IMO the best thing to do is cut a stock set of arms in half, extend them as far as you would like and make a jig for the final product using the stock mounting and spindle angles. I don't have any pics but I have a jig for lower and upper arms, so far we have made 5 sets of arms for friends with no problems and almost no camber change completely alignable 15"-16" of travel but limited to 12" with 4WD.

dfoxengr

have pics of that stock arm cut in half and redone?

maybe static camber wont change, but your camber curves sure will.

runnerfreak88

ya i would really like to see some pics of that

first4runner

yeah I have a friend with a 2wd isuzu and there is really no lift for it so he cut and extended his arm. (it only has one)

Yota82

I have no pics, but you have to think about it like this: If the angles are the same as stock, then you can extend them as wide as you want as long as the upper and lower arm are extended the same lenght. How do you think Total Chaos, Camburg, ESB Fabrications (out of buisness), Advanced Toyota Suspensions, JD Fabrications etc... do it? IMO the price of LT kits from the above companies are absolutely rediculas. I have built a lot of LT kits and it usually costs me about $200 worth of supplies. There are a lot of labor hours involved, but a company like TC for example, has a great number of employees that do 1/10 of the work on and then pass it on to the next guy for his portion. That is inside information for real. I will never pay 2-3K for something that I can and have done myself. As far as camber curves go, there is no LT kit on the market that has 0 degrees of camber change, especially when you are dealing with more than stock travel. Even the most sophisticated, high dollar, professionally designed LT tucks have at least some camber change. DIY and learn from your mistakes.

runnerfreak88

do you mean cut in half length or width wise

Yota82

Post a pic of some stock arms ant I will show you how to do it. I would find the pics but I am about to crash out (lazy). Just find a close up of IFS.

runnerfreak88

not stock but only good pics i can find

dfoxengr

no no, a camber curve is the change in camber as suspension travels.
i was saying that of course stock suspension changes camber, but a long travel will change a different amount at different suspension movements.