ENGAGE offroad lower arm broke i need your guys opinion on this

you could say the same thing for any company that makes long travel kits...the attacks on engage are kind of childish..if your worried about going to fast and rolling, you shouldnt be going that fast in the first place.

 

good to know

 

The fuck happen down south last night?

 

Looks to me the mechanical tubing used failed at it's seam , its gonna happen, bringing it to the guys at engage and they are willing to help , that's good business . I work with metal all day and they mech tubing looks a little thin to me maybe it's time for a part revision . All in all I'd buy engage ! None of there welds failed!

 

the santa ana winds were blowing like porn stars last night

 

softcore (skinimax) or hardcore (interwebs)?

 

please expain how the bushings failed.

they are still right where they should be... well, they should really be in the pivot tube, but....

 

like hardcore sasha grey gangbang

 

Looks to me like the mechanical tubing used failed at it's seam , its gonna happen, bringing it to the guys at engage and they are willing to help , that's good business . I work with metal all day and they mech.tubing looks a little thin to me maybe it's time for a part revision . All in all I'd buy engage ! None of there welds failed!

 

word, but it's never happened like that before... that was just insane...

they declared a state of emergency in Pasadena, and all schools in the area are closed today due to all the road damage...

we got a bunch of uprooted trees over here and they are all really big, old, and heavy...

 

Ok edit on the bushing the pic didn't come up on my iphone till after I commented

 

yeah, it got pretty crazy where i live too. the winds totally came out of nowhere...

a big ass tree at my work fell into the lap pool. luckily nobody was in it at the time

 

gadamnit lucky you fools are still breathing

 

It was a Mojave wind simulator! I'm thinking of doing the Mojave Road when returning from RATR - Maybe I should rethink that! Those winds are a bitch - I know I don't need to tell you that!

 

I read through all the pages and I have a couple questions for the people running this Engage kit. They aren't related to the failure, but are engineering related.

1) Do the Engage LCA's have zerks for the bushings built in (I see no grease or zerks in OP's post)?

2) What material are the bushings?


Related to the issue at hand I kinda wonder why the seam in the bushing tube is in the back and not in the front being held together better by the welds to the LCA - like stock LCA's.

 

I was wondering the same thing about the seam, and in all honesty I just think they're not paying attention to where & what way the seam is facing while fabricating & welding the arms.which makes occurence like these rare because it would be the one arm that the seam is facing outward instead of inward.

 

It's harder to find the seam on DOM

That's probably whats happening

 

the blow out occured at the same spot both times...

 

I just realized this is a second gen. I would have blown a testical if it happen to my 08'

 

Factors contributing to the failure of these arms:

- material thickness
- maybe variable material quality
- some bad luck

I doubt that it was the seam that failed on both arms, more likely lack of material thickness.