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D60 high steer

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#1 ·
Kingpin D60... Who's using what arms? Who's got the best price? Who's got the best product?
 
#4 ·
to have a badass arm you need a keyed knuckle to go with it.
 
#8 ·
I made my own recently. i am looking at making more too:naughty:. i prefer the key, but i came up with a way that i can use the stock knuckle and have a positive way to "Key" the arm. I don't like using just the bolts.Scares me.This way i came up with a way that uses a way to use you stock casting ( with very minimal grinding) and have the benefit of the "key".
 
#9 ·
The ones that insane88yj has are ballistic fab double shear and are very nice. Check out what completeoffroad.com has for sale, he has some nice arms at a decent price.
 
#18 ·
if your using full hydro.you need a keyed knuckle or something like bjeepers is doing or it is easy to break the studs off.have watched it happen many times.that is the cause of a lot of the older ford knuckles to crack and break.
 
#19 ·
A keyed shock knuckle will not be any stronger then a non keyed one. The material the knuckle is made out of is far more important then its mounting. The Ford casting is well known for its weakness and stress cracking. Now you can dress up a stock knuckle with a gusset kit, studs and keying it but after all that time and work it still wont match an aftermarket knuckle.

I like Crane's & Solid Axles keyed knuckles as they are a little more stronger then the Reid knuckles I bought, however being keyed requires you to have to run their high steer arms unless you wanna do some machining.
 
#20 ·
my extreme billet knuckle is a piece of art work.no worries about breaking those.

i don't disagree skooter. welding a brace kit or anything else on a stock knuckle is just asking for trouble.i thought about it when i found mine cracked.then jimmy pulled out a billet one and it was a no brainer.
 
#21 ·
yep yep, for me I have no fears with my knuckles. Even though Reid doesnt "offer" a warrenty on their knuckles they did say on Pirate if you can break them they will replace them :sonicjay: Plus they were a cheaper & better option for me.
 
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