I was looking through my JC Whitney catalog today and saw the tough country extended radius arms that use a pivioting axis for better articulation. I was wondering if anyone has purchased these arms and if so, are they worth it? As of now i have a 4" suspension lift with the droped radius arms brackets, i don't want to wait for that one day when the axle tears off the bracket.. friends have already told me that my axle whould move from side to side when going through ruts.

 

the tuff-country radius arms are made pretty good and for the price they work just as good as the ther manufactures out there. I would get rid of the drop brackets. lift companies quit making those a few years back. I believe Superlift was the manufacture that made the drop brackets and now they switched to extended arms instead. The brackets that Tuff-country produces compare pretty good side by side in specs to other companies but the rest of the lift they make has some to be desired if you go off-road

 

ok..the drop brackets are made by every company that lifts ford ttbs. they are made as a cheap alternative to replacing radius arms. For those people who just lift their trucks for looks or light duty use there fine. But for those of us that use our trucks beyond what they were ever designed to do should upgrade to extended radius arms and retain the stock mounts. I'm not going to say that the rough country arms are of the best quality as that company isn't known for it. If i were purchacing arms i'd give consideration to both skyjacker and bds first.

RYan

 

i have the exact same setup as FordPerf300 4" tuff country suspension lift with drop brackets. How hard is it to install the extedned radius arms? how much time? what about cost? i broke the bank when i had the lift installed with out the longer arms. i heard from a friend it will lift it more with the longer arms but i dotn see how this could be true. I started with a 2.5" lift and now have the 4" lift. The frist ROUGH COUNTRY one sucked to i upgraded. I wonder if i would be better off lifting it again to the 6" lift and installing everythign myself.

any thoughts would help. thanks