Articulink? Technical discussion

[thkbaron]

Hey my truck looks just like that! haha Is that right from the dealer almost? or someone stole your winch. hehe

 

[Trail_Wagon]

Lol good eye, I haven't even had time to put the floor mats in, much less tension the which. I told the dealership to do nothing but the pdi and fill the tank. The truck only has 100 miles on it when I put the 37's on.

 

[thkbaron]

Mine will be whatever it has on at the dealer. 35s going on when I pick it up on the 8th. I’ll let them put my winch hook on lol. Liking your level 3 so far?

 

[Trail_Wagon]

Worth every penny

 

[thkbaron]

Yeah I had a really hard time pulling the trigger on this one. My 2018 is a pretty awesome truck all black w/ ramboxes. I pretty much went completely opposite with this one no ram boxes and white although the 2018 was just a simple level one or whatever you want to call it. I’ve missed leather since the truck before the current power wagon I have now so I opted to go nice inside and simple to take care of outside. I decided to not go with ram boxes because I could just see them breaking in this below zero weather we have in Minnesota. So far I’ve been lucky but they mostly get filled with crap.

 

[Trail_Wagon]

Yeah I had a really hard time pulling the fan on this one. My 2018 as a pretty awesome truck all black w/ ramboxes. I pretty much went completely opposite with this one no ram boxes and white although the 2018 was just a simple level one or whatever you want to call it. I’ve missed leather since the truck before the current power wagon I have now so I opted to go nice inside and simple to take care of outside. I decided to not go with ram boxes because I could just see them breaking in this below zero weather we have in Minnesota. So far I’ve been lucky but they mostly get filled with crap.

This is exactly why I went white... Don't have to worry about pin stripes!

 

[el_barto]

I took the truck out this morning and fully flexed it on the rocks. Teetering on the passenger front and driver rear, with the passenger rear several inches in the air. You can see the articulink radius arms in action. Look at the distortion in the bushings. This is where the flex comes from.

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Excellent picture showing the articulink articulating. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words!

Also, sharp looking new truck!

 

[Trail_Wagon]

Excellent picture showing the articulink articulating. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words!

Also, sharp looking new truck!

Thanks!

 

[Rockcrawlindude]

I took the truck out this morning and fully flexed it on the rocks. Teetering on the passenger front and driver rear, with the passenger rear several inches in the air. You can see the articulink radius arms in action. Look at the distortion in the bushings. This is where the flex comes from.

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Thanks for getting this thread back on track.

This pic was what we needed for this discussion as well.

 

[Trail_Wagon]

Thanks, glad i can help get this back on topic. I think it's interesting that it appears that it's the small bushing doing most of the flexing

 

[Hibiki54]

I took the truck out this morning and fully flexed it on the rocks. Teetering on the passenger front and driver rear, with the passenger rear several inches in the air. You can see the articulink radius arms in action. Look at the distortion in the bushings. This is where the flex comes from.

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That's not flexing. You still have wheels on the ground! LOL

For reference, I went wheeling today (check post date) and followed two Jeeps down a path that was super rutted and super off-camber. The driver following me said he lost track of how many times one of my back wheels was 5+ feet in the air. Several times I was catty-corner two wheeling and see-sawing the other two.

After changing my now brown pants, I can fairly say that the Articulink works and Ram did a great job installing radium arm sliders as a stock feature.

 

[Rockcrawlindude]

That's not flexing. You still have wheels on the ground! LOL

For reference, I went wheeling today (check post date) and followed two Jeeps down a path that was super rutted and super off-camber. The driver following me said he lost track of how many times one of my back wheels was 5+ feet in the air. Several times I was catty-corner two wheeling and see-sawing the other two.

After changing my now brown pants, I can fairly say that the Articulink works and Ram did a great job installing radium arm sliders as a stock feature.

Sounds like a fun time.

 

[Lumpskie]

I posted more detail in my build but wanted to follow up with you Power Wagon folks. I put a single Power Wagon Articulink radius arm on my diesel. It increase my climb from 19.5 to roughly 24 vertical inches with no other changes.

Here's the deflection in the extra bushing:

 

[Trail_Wagon]

That's a pretty significant improvement.

 

[Lumpskie]

That's a pretty significant improvement.

Yeah, I am pretty happy with the improvement.

 

[jetrinka]

Any difference in how the truck drives just down the road normally? Any looser?

 

[Lumpskie]

Any difference in how the truck drives just down the road normally? Any looser?

On smooth road, I can't really tell the difference. Over undulations or uneven bumps, my truck always felt unnaturally tight or twitchy to me. This really smoothed that out.

 

[Rockcrawlindude]

wicked.

 

[thkbaron]

So I think back in the thread somewhere there was some discussion about how the Power Wagon cannot take the payload because of these radius arms. In your opinion, do you think that they have affected your payload capabilities?

 

[Rockcrawlindude]

I posted more detail in my build but wanted to follow up with you Power Wagon folks. I put a single Power Wagon Articulink radius arm on my diesel. It increase my climb from 19.5 to roughly 24 vertical inches with no other changes.

Here's the deflection in the extra bushing:

Factory swaybar installed?