DIY Kafer Brace

Bruce2 · #1 May 1st 2006, 05:18

If you are going to make your own, you could use old front tie rods. They have the left and right threads. You could cut the threads off the old tie rod ends and weld them to some steel tabs. Hunt the wreckers for tie rods that will be the right length.

zeroaxe · #2 May 1st 2006, 15:12

Super VW,

That is what I thought. I was thinking that only one side would have to be adjustable. I checked out SummitRacing, but the costs for getting stuff shipped to France will not make it worth my while, but thanks for the info anyway!

Bruce2,

Thanks for the tip. That is actually a very good idea! :agree: Just not 100% sure how I will weld tabs to the rods

The other thing is, I think it would be difficult ot find bolts in the DIY shops here that will screw on onto the tie-end rods. Unless I get the whole assembly?

Steve C · #3 May 1st 2006, 20:20

Hi

Im going to use tie rods for my brace when I get to that point. The good thing is if you need to trim them down in lenght, if you only cut the right hand thread side you will only need to buy a right hand thread tap which are much easier to find and cheaper to buy than left hand thread taps.

As far as hooking it up the ends to the tie rod threads, you could either leave the tierod as is and weld a tapered section onto the anchor or just have some U shaped clevis ends made up and weld them to the threaded section of a tie rod after you cut off the nuckle.

Steve

Steve C · #4 May 1st 2006, 20:25

Hi

Also if you can have different thread pitches but still right hand thread at each end of a rod, this will give adjustable lenght as well.

Steve

zeroaxe · #5 May 2nd 2006, 18:00

I had a look at work today at some old tie end rods. And from shock mount to shock mount the longest one I found will be too short. I assume that this wold be the case with just about any tierod out there from any manufacturer... But I cant imagine this being too much of a problem as it can be chopped in half and the extra piece welded in, no?

Thanks so far for all the input! :agree:

Bruce2 · #6 May 3rd 2006, 04:46

Since you will have to do some welding anyway, why not extend the length of the tie rod?

Steve C · #7 May 3rd 2006, 08:05

Hi

I would have thought that the long tie rod on the beam front ends would be long enought for between the shock tower.

Steve

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