Beam size

[ground hugger]

Hello
If you swap your ball joint beam with a standard k&l beam,how much narrower will the track be :?:

A slamwerks narrowed k&l beam is 4.5 inch........4.5 inch less than what :?: A standard balljoint beam or a standard k&l beam :?:

Cheers...Dave

 

[radish]

4.5 narrower than a k&l, k&l beams are narrower than bj beams anyway but when fully built up hub nut to nut they issnt much in it.

 

[Geeze]

Been told it's 4.5" narrower than a bay (balljoint) beam because it's the same width as a 4" narrowed split beam but a K&L beam is 10mm narrower than a balljoint beam to start with.

But, as Radish says, it's a few mill on each side whichever is true so it's not going to make much difference

 

[Araon]

As I remember it (I'm pissed on G&T at the mo) your 71 is 12mm wider at the hubs all ready (over a drum brake model) so if the the 70 > beam is 10mm narrower then it stands at -22mm so I'm guessing that (by the way I'm tying my Nappa in knots right now) they are working on 4.5 narrower than a ball joint drum brake which makes yours even more ******* tucked in (in comparrison to a 72) (and makes my initial line regarding 12mm narrower completely ******* pointless.....

why did I respond?

what did I just type?

**** my head is now hurting need more Gin and Tonic

 

[Rexer]

As I remember it (I'm pissed on G&T at the mo) your 71 is 12mm wider at the hubs all ready (over a drum brake model) so if the the 70 > beam is 10mm narrower then it stands at -22mm so I'm guessing that (by the way I'm tying my Nappa in knots right now) they are working on 4.5 narrower than a ball joint drum brake which makes yours even more ******* tucked in (in comparrison to a 72) (and makes my initial line regarding 12mm narrower completely ******* pointless.....

why did I respond?

what did I just type?

**** my head is now hurting need more Gin and Tonic

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[ground hugger]

As I remember it (I'm pissed on G&T at the mo) your 71 is 12mm wider at the hubs all ready (over a drum brake model) so if the the 70 > beam is 10mm narrower then it stands at -22mm so I'm guessing that (by the way I'm tying my Nappa in knots right now) they are working on 4.5 narrower than a ball joint drum brake which makes yours even more ******* tucked in (in comparrison to a 72) (and makes my initial line regarding 12mm narrower completely ******* pointless.....

why did I respond?

what did I just type?

**** my head is now hurting need more Gin and Tonic

:lol: :lol: Cheers Guys think I've got it now and know where Im going well sort of.Looking at it anything narrower than 42mm per side I'm going to want the torsion arms narrowing anyway to clear the endplates.........Dave