A productive night all round.

[ashleyb4]

I was bored tonight so i thought i would make my self a custom draglink. I wasnt going to post anything but then i thought wow this is cool and i wanted to do a mini review like jimmy. hehe

So here we go:

What you will need:
Two short ball cups i used some i had laying around as these are relativly short but you can use longer ones and cut them down.

You will need some m3 threaded bar. Or a old turnbuckle. But i used threaded bar.

Tools:

Caliper
pliers
dremel
a calculator if you can add or subtract.

Ok you will need to check yor ball cups fit on the losi ball studs:

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Next you will need to measure the standard draglink which measures 44mm


This is where a digital cliper comes in handy and the calculator:

You need to measurethe length of yourball cups the ones i used measred 16mm

So you subtract the size of your ball cups from the lngth of the standard draglink.

Mine worked like this:

Gap= 44mm-(16mm x 2)

which equals 12mm

You will now need to wind one end of the threaded bar into one of the ball cups then mark it where it is fully in. Take the threaded bar out and measure how long this is. Mine was 9mm so calculators at the ready:

length of threaded bar=(9x2)+7mm

which equals:25mm

I used 7mm as this was the gap i would leave betweek the two ball cups as shown in the image below:



So you now need to cut your threaded bar to 25mm in length or the length of your choice calcualted by using the simple formula above. i sujest you use a dremel for this but a hack saw will work.

Now you have all your parts:



Now you just need to put all the parts together ans ajust to the correct sizr i did mine to 41mm as i needed mine 44mm shorter than the standard one:


Then simply install and ajust your turnbuckles as required to get your toe in correct.


Hope you dont mind this jimmy i just thought it would make it interesting by putting it on a forum like a little guide instead of just making it and putting it on. Also i love the way you do your reviews and articles. And wanted to do something similar.

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[ashleyb4]

Also safelty notice if you are a child ask your mum or dad to help you with the dremeling.

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[jimmy]

Don't mind at all mate - thats cool, nice job.
I hope you asked your parents to do the dremeling tho!

[ashleyb4]

Also i must apolligise for my awfull spelling and also there should be 6 pictures as at first one of them didnt loads of me so i had to refresh a few times to get it to load.

And thanks jimmy glad you dont mine.

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[k£v!n]

Cool guide ash! Very intrestign to read!

Is it much stronger then the original one? ?

Kev

[_sleigh_]

Out of interest, who's set-up did you put on your XX4 that had a custom draglink?

[ashleyb4]

I think it is tom cockeril's or tom cockil im not sure it was tom someone i found it in one of the past posts on here.

Do you have a good inddor setup phil you wouldnt mind sharing

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