camo86T Silver Donating Members 1,810 Member For: 10y 2m 11d Gender: Male Location: SW Sydney Posted 18/03/17 02:21 AM Share Posted 18/03/17 02:21 AM Keen to see pics and feedback on tramp rods 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OZYWALKER XR50T Gold Donating Members 2,795 Member For: 10y 11m 22d Gender: Male Location: Western Sydney Posted 18/03/17 02:31 AM Share Posted 18/03/17 02:31 AM Make it easy for yourself camo, race car engineering in qld sell them for $600 or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camo86T Silver Donating Members 1,810 Member For: 10y 2m 11d Gender: Male Location: SW Sydney Posted 18/03/17 07:27 AM Share Posted 18/03/17 07:27 AM 4 hours ago, OZYWALKER said: Make it easy for yourself A concept I find difficult to grasp lol... But it's more the fact I want to make some myself. Apart from the rod ends which are easy to get hold of, everything else is in the workshop. Though I'm pretty set on copying the mal wood type that sit above rather than underneath. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bamk2f6tornado Bronze Donating Members 777 Member For: 10y 4m 20d Gender: Male Location: Rockhampton Qld Posted 18/03/17 09:45 AM Share Posted 18/03/17 09:45 AM I'm pretty much copying the malwood kit. Should have pics tomorrow of it installed. Made a start on the front n rear brackets today. Only $40 in steel plate/pipe. $200 for the rods for both sides, LH thread heim joints and Nissan bushes/housing with RH threaded rod. So unlike the malwood kit it can be adjusted without removing a heim joint. All up will cost me less than $300Gave under the tub a wash today. Came up pretty good. Used k&n airfilter cleaner as a degreaser. Worked bloody brilliant. Pic below shows how far the diff pinion is already pointing too the sky. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OZYWALKER XR50T Gold Donating Members 2,795 Member For: 10y 11m 22d Gender: Male Location: Western Sydney Posted 18/03/17 10:19 AM Share Posted 18/03/17 10:19 AM If you haven't fitted a solid front eye bush in the leaf spring yet you'd want to whilst doing a tramp rod kit. The force put on the front Bush from the axle rotating upward will kill a poly bush pretty quick if you drive it hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bamk2f6tornado Bronze Donating Members 777 Member For: 10y 4m 20d Gender: Male Location: Rockhampton Qld Posted 18/03/17 10:54 AM Share Posted 18/03/17 10:54 AM I inspected em a few months back and they were in great nick. Have a set of nolothane bushes in the shed but havnt fitted them coz it looked to hard to remove the ones in there haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OZYWALKER XR50T Gold Donating Members 2,795 Member For: 10y 11m 22d Gender: Male Location: Western Sydney Posted 18/03/17 11:19 AM Share Posted 18/03/17 11:19 AM Fair enough. Either way if its a nolethane or a stock one keep in mind if you plan on fitting plates along side the front eye like a caltrac of mals kit you'll need to fit a narrower bush. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bamk2f6tornado Bronze Donating Members 777 Member For: 10y 4m 20d Gender: Male Location: Rockhampton Qld Posted 18/03/17 11:46 AM Share Posted 18/03/17 11:46 AM What are these plates you speak of? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camo86T Silver Donating Members 1,810 Member For: 10y 2m 11d Gender: Male Location: SW Sydney Posted 18/03/17 09:09 PM Share Posted 18/03/17 09:09 PM These I think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OZYWALKER XR50T Gold Donating Members 2,795 Member For: 10y 11m 22d Gender: Male Location: Western Sydney Posted 18/03/17 10:12 PM Share Posted 18/03/17 10:12 PM Camos pic doesn't work for me. Here's a picThey sit next to the leaf. You'll see that the front bushes are wider than the leaf, this is where these caltrac brackets sit. Pretty sure mals kit also provides a narrower front eye bush to allow a similar fit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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