Samurai Axle Trussing/Bracing & SPOA Perches

[NylonAdmiral]

For what it's worth, when I bought my truck it was SPOA but not done very well, I spent a lot of time and reasonable amount of money putting it right but then again I also have quite a bit of lift. Getting everything to articulate properly without anything clashing or binding was quite a challenge.

I've since redone the perches and set them properly using a jig/inclinometer, fabricated an antiwrap bar, fabricated a proper steering arm, worked out correct prop lengths etc etc. Whilst everything is now pretty much setup about as well as an SPOA can be, I'm building another truck now and won't be going SPOA. In my opinion, the amount of work to do it properly is not worth the limited return it offers.

[ferris]

TBH it's not hard to make your own trusses with some box section and an angle grinder.

Think there are some photos in Ferris' project bodge build thread.

Yeah thats what i used. still working on those at the moment, rear one is pretty much done.

Excuse the dodgy welding