Custom trailing Arms - Land Rovers Only

Divied245 · 10-26-2009, 10:54 AM

I call these the "high arch - spring dis-lodging - self frame impacting - auto-imploding" trailing arms.

I think they are supposed to be straight. That or they should have a very slight bend in them

What actually happened was I was trying to climb a foot and a half tall tree stump and some how these decided to give out and ram my tires into my wheel wells. It was the most pathetic trail breakage I have ever seen. I do not even see how an engineer let this design make it out onto the street.
I replaced them with some other arms I had off of an 89 which are make from tubing and not round bar and seem to be much more sturdy than these.

ArmyRover · 10-26-2009, 11:40 AM

Done that before myself, I found out straightening those trailing arms is the only thing the factory bottle jack is good for.

I replaced mine with a pair of a Disco I

FlagRover · 10-26-2009, 11:55 AM

Lol. I did the same thing. Read my post and see my pics here: I know its another forum but dont want to retype it all. VERY weak point of the rovers. I did this getting TO the trail....grrrr

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I got scorpion trailing arms.