looking for 44 high steer arms

[Jackasic]

After Jimmy grenaded his 44 Avalanche arms, I decided I would not be a sheep and look at other companies. If you know of any others, post them up.

Brandon

Avalanche:


Sky Manafacturing:



Shaker built


Rock Stomper 1



Rock Stomper 2



Any others?

[mark]

You forgot Steering Arms by RJ. They're Ghettofabulous.

BTW, isn't that fawker back from HI yet?

-Mark

[robertf03]

are you going to use hummer wheels with your new setup? I think shakerbuilts are the only ones that will fit that you listed.

I'd go with his. 100 bucks is hard to beat.

[Fredo]

yeah, jimmy "grenaded" an arm alright. It's not like it blew apart or snapped off and damn near killed somebody. It had a hole that had become elongated. I'll defend them on this one. They admitted it was an old design, replaced it with a new one for free with very little hassle. The new one is very nice and on the truck right now. If this one screws up, then fine, but until then I think they are a pretty nice part.

[BMFScout]

yeah, we'll see what happens with the avalanche poop, if another one fawks up I will try to get them to send me some of their two way arms when they get them designed, I think that would be cool to run the tie rod out back, not sure if it would work or not on my setup. They said it could have been a manufacturing defect, I know it was installed correctly, so we will see, the new arm is a little different, but not significantly different. If it fawks up as well, I will tell them where to stick it, but as of right now I am going to wheel it. The avalanche arms by far look the coolest at least, the new ones have avalanche machined into the side insteadof those stickers So I will look like a badass on the side of the trail

[Jackasic]

That was a little tongue and cheek there Fredo So are the new arms thicker across (that is my main concern with them). Doesn't seem like there is enough metal there to resist the lateral forces.

Flem, I am not going hummer wheels at this time but I am looking at 17 inchers. The big concern is that 37x17 MT/R's are D/E load ranged and the 15 inchers are a C load range.

I like the Rockstomper, but the two problems I see are that they aren't beveled and they are not machined for tie rod ends. Probably easily solved, but I will have to ask them.

I like the Skybuilt and the price seems right - 79$ apiece. But in all reality, they are all about 100$ an arm. I'll see how Jimmy's new ones do before crossing Avalanche off the list.

[Jackasic]

found this site, looks good!

here

[BMFScout]

after looking at mine some more I have come to the realization that there is no way to make them any thicker then they are and still run TRE's. The have to have a little room between the top of the arm and the bottom of the TRE, and fully tightened down there is just enough room on the bottom to slip in a cotter pin. They are as thick as they can be with TRE's. c'mon brandon, you know you are going to go with the lowest bidder anyway

[robertf03]

lowest bidder would be shakerbuilt

[Jackasic]

by thicker, I actualy mean wiiiiider, i.e. some more beaf on the outside and inside.

Oh and BTW, I don't go for the lowest price, I find what I consider the best quality/value/build and then beat them down to a silly low price Just a little Jackasic shopping tips for the kids.

[Jackasic]

Shakerbuilt is actualy near the bottom. Not much fit or finish there.

The two I like best so far are:

extreme gear offroad for 150$ a piece (ouch!)


and these from OTT at for 220$ a pair for the flat and 310 for the bent:


And Mark, no getto fabed RJ Lynn arms for me

[robertf03]

near the bottom for fit and finish? how?

you dont need a twist to it for tie rod ends, and Jimmy didn't need any blocks or lift in the arm on his setup, so you shouldn't either. they are also setup for a lot of backspacing.

[Jackasic]

good points, maybe I judged to harshly

That is kind of why I put it out here, to get good feed back. Why wouldn't I need it beveled? I would think that would be manditory on tie rods.

I am not sure on the spacers though, Jimmy is running stock springs and I am planing to run it with my SkyJackers. I want to wait till the SOA is on to see what will work best.

Any other thoughs or things I may have missed?

[robertf03]

I think I would rather have the stepped up arm over a spacer, but I dont think that'll be an issue unless you use the 1 ton tie rod ends that have that drop down in them (pic on that site you posted) 1/2 ton blazer ones should be fine, I've never heard of anyone breaking them,and they aren't exactly hard to find if you can pull it off.

The twist to the arm doesnt make any sence to me. maybe for the draglink, but the tie rod shouldn't have an angle to the mount. those pics show a drivers side arm with an angle which is stupid unless its right hand drive, but even then only 1 hole should be at an angle.


I think a ball jointed rod end will have enough movement in it that a drag link won't be a problem either. it seems to be all hype to me, and I haven't seen any good reasons to run a twisted arm on POR unless your using heim joints.

[robertf03]

oh, and you forgot FlemCo's arms