2014+ Rear Control Arms

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2014+ Rear Control Arms

Post by djgaston » Sat Jan 13, 2018 2:52 am

Product page: http://store.dodgeoffroad.com/Dodge-Off ... p_197.html

If you want better-than-stock rear control arms, we're the place to go. We have been making these for about a year and a half now, and they've been a really good seller for us lately. Good enough that we're bumping the inventory levels up quite a bit this year and planning to keep these in stock for the first time. These arms are so simple, but they work incredibly well. The problem with the factory rear arms is that they use huge bushings, and the arms really aren't that strong. The bushings cause all kinds of issues with the rear suspension, most notably axle hop. Guys have tried all kinds of things to get rid of it, and while these arms won't solve that issue entirely, this is the single biggest thing you can do to make the rear suspension behave. The reason the arms won't fix the entire problem is because the geometry of the rear 4 link sucks so bad. To do a complete fix, you'll need to change the mounting points.

These will give your rear suspension more strength, more misalignment, more traction, and they will last a lot longer than the stock arms on a truck that gets wheeled regularly. Bushings wear out quickly when they are constantly twisted, but joints can run at angles all the time and won't give you any issues from that.

Our arms are made from 2" OD x .250" wall 1026 DOM tube on the upper and lower arms. The joints are 1.25" shank Currie Johnny Joints, and then we machine custom ball centers from 1215 cold rolled steel to fit the Johnny Joint housing and polyurethane bushing. So rather than have an entire custom joint, only the ball itself is custom - the rest of the joint uses off the shelf parts available from any Currie dealer. If you ever need to rebuild the joint, you can do that, or we can sell replacements that are ready to thread in to your control arms. The joints are greaseable as well.

Adjustment is super easy, as the joints are reverse threaded. You simply loosen the jam nuts and twist the arms to extend or collapse them as needed. In my steering thread I said your alignment guy would complain about adjusting that, but with these he will think you are awesome. Adjustments don't get easier than this.

These work on stock height trucks up to 6" lift, we even have some diesel guys running them on 8" lifts without any drop brackets - I'm not advising that, but there is a lot of adjustment built into the arms. Any normal lift height won't be a problem.
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custom balls on a platter
Fire away with questions below.

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