How well would you trust using this setup?

[yamaha225dr]

I got this idea after reading the thread asking about lowering a trike. We use this setup for making tie rods and upper a-arms on the dirt car, so it's definitely not a weak setup but what do you guys think? It's a five inch long piece of swedge tube with two heim joints used in place of the factory dog bone. I had to make spacers to fit it properly but it worked really well. I don't jump this thing but like the added stability and lower stance, I did lower the front some more after taking these pics. So what do you guys think? It was a free mod and the parts would be over half the price of a Durablue kit and it's still adjustable cause both ends are threaded different.
http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t294/Dale06_photo/CAM00132_zpse680f581.jpg
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Before

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t294/Dale06_photo/CAM00131_zpscc05aa1c.jpg

After
http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t294/Dale06_photo/CAM00137_zpsc7e43bcb.jpg

[84honda200s]

looks beefy enough. we used them bad boys on the mud rail . if they can take a 900hp beast tweaking on em going across a bumpy mud pit it will do what you need it to for sure.

[yamaha225dr]

looks beefy enough. we used them bad boys on the mud rail . if they can take a 900hp beast tweaking on em going across a bumpy mud pit it will do what you need it to for sure.

That is what I was thinking and they bend instead of break if stressed. I just need to find some flat track racing now!

[atc300r]

That looks like it would hold up just fine.Is it adjustable without removing it.

[250rRoostmaster]

Looks more than adequate lol Very beefy, don't think you will have any problems running that.

[fabiodriven]

I wouldn't hesitate to use that.

[JasonB]

you dont have longer sections of that pipe do you? want to make me one to raise my extended 500R a few inches :naughty:

[El Camexican]

That thing will never fail for what you are doing with it. BTW Nice ride!

[Dirtcrasher]

Looks great to me!

[Jason125m]

I would run it! Will never break that. I would like to see some up close pictures of it installed on the trike. I'd like to make something along the same lines.

Nice R!

[yamaha225dr]

you dont have longer sections of that pipe do you? want to make me one to raise my extended 500R a few inches :naughty:

I actually have one about a foot long.

[yamaha225dr]

I would run it! Will never break that. I would like to see some up close pictures of it installed on the trike. I'd like to make something along the same lines.

Nice R!

Thanks! I actually took it back off yesterday so I could reinstall my skid plate to go trail riding today. That is the only real flaw with the setup.

[Kintore]

How much for one? That is awesome!!! I would run it!

[yamaha225dr]

How much for one? That is awesome!!! I would run it!


Just order the parts linked below. You will need to make spacers cause the eyes on the heim joints are bigger then the shock bolts and the heim joints are narrower then the shock mounts. Just make sure you select which length swedge tube you want when checking out, they range from four to twenty four inches in length. I am running a five inch one but the heim joints add another two inches and allows about two inches of adjustability.

http://www.speedwaymotors.com/Precision-LH-Male-Heim-5-8-Inch-18,29603.html?b=s*175+0316
http://www.speedwaymotors.com/Precision-RH-Male-Heim-5-8-Inch,29655.html?b=s*175+0116
http://www.speedwaymotors.com/Swedged-Steel-Tube-for-5-8-Inch-Heim,2092.html?b=s*910+34258

[JasonB]

THANKS FOR POSTING THAT! Looks like about 20 250R owners about to adjust their heights for longer swingers or slam them to the ground hahahahhahhaahah

[yamaha225dr]

THANKS FOR POSTING THAT! Looks like about 20 250R owners about to adjust their heights for longer swingers or slam them to the ground hahahahhahhaahah


:lol: Honestly, I was expecting to get laughed at when I started this thread. So I am glad to know I can help people out! The site above is reputable and we buy stuff for the dirt car from them all the time. Just take off your stock dog bone with a jack under the trike, lower to your desired height and measure the distance from eye of the mount to the eye of the shock. Subtract about two inches from that measurement and make that the length of your swedge tube.

[Rigaman]

That is real freaking cool!

[Keith Salyer]

That's a fine looking link, how short will it get. As long as it has plenty of threads when you take it out to stock length it should be plenty safe......

[TecateDan]

Wow cool set up.. Any idea what the od of the Heim is what the width is ?

[Red Rider]

That's a fine looking link, how short will it get. As long as it has plenty of threads when you take it out to stock length it should be plenty safe......When using an adjustable link on Honda's "Pro-Link" setup, the longer the link, the lower the bike sits. To return the bike back to the stock height, you'd have shorten the link some, so having plenty of threads shouldn't be an issue, unless of course, the heim joints are bottoming out against each other or the swedge tube.

[Red Rider]

Yamaha225, I agree, it looks good, and plenty strong. Nice job. If it were mine though, I'd add a lock nut in between each heim joint and the swedge tube, just to be safe.

[yamaha225dr]

Wow cool set up.. Any idea what the od of the Heim is what the width is ?


Overall diameter is 5/8" and with I do not know. Thanks!

[yamaha225dr]

Yamaha225, I agree, it looks good, and plenty strong. Nice job. If it were mine though, I'd add a lock nut in between each heim joint and the swedge tube, just to be safe.



Thanks! I agree that a lock Nutt would be a good idea.

[yamaha225dr]

When using an adjustable link on Honda's "Pro-Link" setup, the longer the link, the lower the bike sits. To return the bike back to the stock height, you'd have shorten the link some, so having plenty of threads shouldn't be an issue, unless of course, the heim joints are bottoming out against each other or the swedge tube.

That is what's stopping me from keeping my trike lowered cause I don't trust riding without a skid plate.

[TecateDan]

I run a Tecate so the uni-link is completey opposite of the honda. Longer rod = higher height for me