upper cross shafts

joshkoltes

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what do you guys think the rear suspension upper cross shafts are made of? are they moly, steel, sometimes i think they strip out like aluminum?

i was just going to build spacers for my new wider tunnel but i think it would be best to make a new cross shaft instead, then build spacers that ride on the new 17 wide shaft

 

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In the past, there were manufacturer printing on the shafts. That should help someone ID the material. I would go with longer shafts, that is a bad place to have spacers.

 

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I think most were aluminum.

 

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volcano buster said:

In the past, there were manufacturer printing on the shafts. That should help someone ID the material. I would go with longer shafts, that is a bad place to have spacers.

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right, and even the extra hassle of trying to heep the spacers in line on assembly being an extra headache.