Ones anyone know of any other suppliers of cone links? This is the problem have, I'm making up rose jointed parallel and trailing arms with 5/8 joints but no cone links I can find will fit them. I have both types of Rally Design link shown below, compression links and tension links, but neither will fit a 5/8 joint. They must be available as I've seen them used before.



I can get around this by mounting them to the sides with a spacer tube in the middle (using the joints ideally on the left hand side as they are 1/3 of the price!) as I have seen others do, but it seems like a bit of a bodge when the proper joints must be out there somewhere. Besides, the tension strut links are £80 a pair which is a lot of money for something which doesn't fit 100%



The should fit like this



Anyone have any suggestions?

 

i was told not to use them joints for that application as that area isn't supposed to have all that range of movement

 

Who advices that, out of interest?

If that we're the case I guess you could use the cone link in the hub with a solid mount connected, like the end of a compression strut.

 

How wide do you want them for the joint? I have a couple here brand new that might fit.

 

A minimum of 20mm, Mark.

 

Ive checked mine and they are at 15mm. Why are you putting a bearing at the hub? Just fit one in board to the chassis and a fixed to the cone, you still get the same up/down radius.
That rod is for compliance control so doesnt need to turn.

 

I think the bearing is there to correct the angle of the tension strut?

 

You dont need a bearing there.

 

You don't run a rose joint there rose joint gos other end pal

 

I thought this as it's a tension strut, but all the RS Turbo kits I've ever seen MEF, Zoo and home made etc run a rose joint there. I'll take a look at the arm angle tomoz

 

You will need get that part remade to run a rose r joint
Mate

 

Here's more of the part in question. Maybe it is a bespoke part MEF made themselves.



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And here's someone running the joint on the side.




Annoying! Lol.

 

I can see why there is a joint, but a double adjuster and joint on the front would suffice on that setup.

 

What do you mean by "double adjuster", Mark? Cheers for the help BTW. Was starting to stress me out.

 

These



That sit here


One left and one right hand thread so you can adjust the length without removing the arm. If you only have one joint then you use a double adjuster.



My escort has a similar setup

 

Excellent! That's a massive help, thanks.

 

It was brom/zoo that told me not to use that sort of joint there

 

run it this way ,add a piece of metal to fill the middle and weld up


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add the metal to the middle and weld round job sorted an run rose joint to side


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