The benefits of aftermarket links

[NCFJ]

The stock links seem to be good for about 200,000 miles. There is no way you are going to bend the upper links. Lowers are a different story, just turn them over and wait for them to bend back straight or weld on angle as many others have. Those pictures are FJ cruiser parts and not relative to the 100 series or this forum. This thread is not tech but advertising for NCFJ. No?

The photos of the FJ cruiser parts are relative if you are paying attention. The links for the 100 are the same except they are just a shade (under and inch) longer. So I used FJ Cruiser photos.

I bent an upper link on my FJ Cruiser, so I would say it is possible to do the same.

Sure I build links for sale and yes this thread will help sell them. I wrote the thread originally for the FJ Cruiser crowd because I was getting questions all the time about links. I was starting to get similar questions here via PM. If you see it as only advertising and not informative, I can't help you with that.

If you feel you don't need them, great. As stated before, these are for the owner that uses his rig hard in rocks etc and want a stronger product that allows the suspension to move with more freedom than the stock units.

 

[sleeoffroad]

I bent an upper link on my FJ Cruiser, so I would say it is possible to do the same.

I have never seen or heard of a 100 series upper link bending. They are 10 times the size of a FJ Cruiser link. In very rare cases people have deformed the eyelets or trashed the bushings but that was normally after so me off-road abuse or mishap.

 

[spressomon]

^^^ my upper link/control arm's bushing housings (all four ends) were stretched/ovalized longitudinally. Ditto for my lower control arm ends...just not ovalized near as much as the uppers were.

 

[Layonnn]

My 100 has 150K miles on them. When i pulled the links the uppers and lowers had some cracks in the rubber bushings, nearly every bushing had small cracks.

 

[spressomon]

~150K seems to be the timeline for rear control arm bushing refresh. Not bad for 11-years and 150k miles I'd say!