Recent content by ADHDandthensome

I cannot deny the elegance of it, but after seeing the idea in practic on my buddy's Odes UTV, I know it works. His lbj broke 2 years ago. In a pinch in the field he welded a chain to both control arms after the ball came out of the socket. He still has yet to replace the ball joint, but rides...

Ummmm...... I think you have forgotten what the idea of a fail safe is. Redundancy is good in that aspect. After all if your ball joint fails........ your spindle is no longer attached....... thus the reason for the Redundancy. Kinda like putting you high steer arms in double sheer. It's a...

Basic idea, this is approximately how I was wanting to do this. The blue line would be a cable on the leading edge of the control arms. Goofy or not the ball joints should not be able to separate completely. Of course you could try to find a limit strap in the correct length and you would get...

Caging the control arms I'm getting ready to do a full front end rebuild on my 3" lifted '97 SR5. I'm doing all bushings, extended travel CV's, new tie rods and ball joints. Well I just found out about the lbj failure being so common on these (I own two with 230k and 370k with no failure) and...