Desertfox1023

Alright so I was think the other day about the difference. What's the advantage of either? I know a 3-link provides greater flex off road, but not much beyond that. Also can we just remove the passenger upper control arm from are Cherokees and make them preform better?

ktmracer419

you will see as much flex as your other components allow with either setup. most likely factory longarms or shocks (provided your brakelines are long enough)

if you remove one upper, you are placing your entire axle and frotn end components at the mercy of one 10mm bolt. if that one bolt snaps, then it takes out other components with it.

caged

go for a true long arm. it is essentially a 4 bar link, but mounts to the frame in only 2 places.

the upper arms both mount to the lowers.


i wouldn't remove any stock arms. they are very weak and bend quite easily in their stock locations as it is.

wicked_xj

X2 on cage i know the stock uppers are weak lol

wicked_xj

X2 on cage i know that from experience

93XJLI

what?

a there are plenty of "true" long arm kits and designs that arent radius arms which you described. and what are you saying about the stock CA mounts?

caged

i've seen some longarm kits that still use the stock upper control arm frame mounts for the upper links, but the lowers are mounted to a custom crossmember. they still work, but do limit some articulation.

i didn't say anything about the stock control arm mounts, but i'd just cut em off anyways. they're weak too.

cheers

ktmracer419

terafail?

sure it limits articulation, but i would be more concerned with the pinion dive and binding driveshafts

caged

yeah, that's it.

i just didn't want to openly diss a product, but yeah....

Desertfox1023

Well ya'll answered that question, I forgot how small those stock upper control arm bolts are. I don't plan on doing a long arm anytime soon as I've got other projects I'm working on. When I do go that route my plans are to go with the RK 3-link. That's what got me thinking about a short arm one. Thanks for the info guys.

wicked_xj

It isn't hard to make you own just get the brackets and a calculator

Desertfox1023

True, especially one as simple as the RK kit. I plan on keeping it low at 4.5" for now with 33's so no need for a full long arm setup.

93XJLI

RK's kit is a "full" long arm kit..

Desertfox1023

Ya, I know what the RK kit is. You misunderstood my posting. I don't plan on running a long arm kit. I'm just going to keep running it as is with the short arms at 4.5". It hasn't given me any problems yet. I was just stating how simple the design is on the RK kit. Really don't know how everyone got off on longarm talks cause the original post was meant for just talking about trying to improve the stock suspension by removing a limiting factor. Which was solved quickly by the reminder that the stock upper control arm bolts are 10mm.