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Post by Ty Fri Sep 28, 2012 7:00 am

So I thought some of you (Brady) might be interested in this little bit of info. I crawled under my truck the other day to install my breather extention and noticed that one of my upper control arms was bent pretty good.

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So I pulled them both off and took them to work to reinforce.

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I actually extended them 1 inch to center my axle a little better. I know it won't until I extend the bottoms but figured I would do it while they were off.

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Brady I highly recommend you look into this. Appenantly Toyota didn't think about people like us when they designed the link system with 1/2 inch rod.
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Post by dutchman Fri Sep 28, 2012 7:42 am

When you get them back on I'd be interested to see how the axle sits. When my 4runner isn't driven everyday I may have you do the same to mine.

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Post by Ty Fri Sep 28, 2012 7:46 am

I don't think it will change anything but the pinion angle until I do the bottoms. As for strength all I did was sleeved the 1/2 rod with .120 wall 1/2 ID DOM. Strength will be increased dramatically.
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Post by sixstringsteve Thu Nov 29, 2012 4:20 pm

Once you've lengthed the lowers, how will it affect the panhard bar?
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Post by Ty Thu Nov 29, 2012 4:22 pm

It really didn't effect it. It just rolled the diff up a little.
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