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Werner Van Loock wrote:Are you going to make the bent (later) ones?

Like Pete and Matt have on their car, also the front tube is a lot thicker

If you enlarge the picture you can see it.

Antnicuk wrote:Do you notice any improvement over the conventional ones? What sort of price would they be and would they include the rose joint?

1)The improvement comes from being able to adjust camber/castor/toe to half a turn of the rose joint as opposed to ONLY a complete turn of the SHERPA van rodend --- also the poly bushes take up all the space within the pick - up points , so little or no adjustment can be made to their positioning(It 'is' possible as I advised Matt D. --- to grind a little off the tube housing the poly bushes to then position the wishbone more forward)
Boots are a bl ---- dy pain to put on rose joints because you have to also get your spacers in each side of the rodend. I prefer to clean them with a 2 foot rag x 2 inches wide cheese wire style plus squirt WD over them. Next time you rag them it comes off easy and they stay like new.
Personally I wouldn't use cheap rodends so price would be National rodends £23 plus range. You'd need 3 rodends = £75 ball park cost . The wishbones themselves , I'd need to make up a batch to assess a sensible price(they'd also need 3 threaded inserts for half inch rodends)
Sticking my finger in the air , say ------ £100 per pair plus the rodends
It's not something you'd do unless you intend competing and like setting up your own car because you would also need an upright to take rose jointed rodends ----the list goes on --- insert for top rocking arm to take rodend.
Once you decide on this route then you tend to look for other advantages to justify the expense ---- like fitting alloy uprights with a higher stub than the Escort stubs This then leads on to adjusting the rear to acheive the wedge you want which then leads to long travel arms/long shocks etc etc


I inspected my upper rocker arms which dont look like the one in the picture and they look like they have bent in the past so i was going to try and re inforce them but the ones above look much better. Also, I only have one bracket going from the chassis to the bracket holding the pivot in the rocker arm but there are 2 in the pic above. What rocker arms are you using to race with? and have you stregthened them?

Antnicuk wrote:thanks for the detailed answer, i dont think i will ever compete enough in that case, the car is mainly for fun and will only be used for track days rather than compeition. I'm not a good enough driver to notice adjustments like you mention or know what effect they will have.

How can i tell if i have the suspension too low so as to damage the rocker arms?,

Werner Van Loock wrote:Are you going to make the bent (later) ones?

Like Pete and Matt have on their car, also the front tube is a lot thicker

If you enlarge the picture you can see it.

Cerberus wrote:

Werner Van Loock wrote:Are you going to make the bent (later) ones?

Like Pete and Matt have on their car, also the front tube is a lot thicker

If you enlarge the picture you can see it.

Mine are different to these, the rear of my wishbone is made from flat oval tube if this makes sense with a thick round front tube and each tube is welded (offset)to the threaded piece that holds the lower joint.

Phil

stylussprinter wrote:One of my wishbones got bent in the Goodwood alloy upright failure so today , having nowt on , I've made up a jig to make new ones. If anybody else goes up the route of spherical rod ended wishbones then I can now supply
Even with the upright breakage these rodends have been on my car for 4 years now without signs of wear. Having said that , I clean them and WD often.