****ed up a arms

[Honda 250r 001]

i found out the a arms i bought are effed up, man this pisses me off.

The left bottom a arm in the pic is manufactured wrong, the top and the right side is all good. Think the manufacturer will make me a new one?

here is the left side

[Honda 250r 001]

here is a veiw of both showing the croockedness of the left bottom arm.

[Honda 250r 001]

here is the right side, the way the arm should be.

[skyeryder]

That's terrible, hopefully they make it right!! If not let us know who it is and I'll make sure i never buy from them

[86 Quad R]

did you purchase them new that way or what?

[Honda 250r 001]

i bought them like that, they problem is, the company is a very very small company, basicly one or two guys. So I dont know if they will do it for a decent price.

[86 Quad R]

certainly wont hurt to try ehhh! :cool: if not then is it cost effectlive to you to purchase a single replacement?

[Honda 250r 001]

ya im going to try to call him again right now and see if we can work something out. If he wont make me a new one for any price, i think i can fix this one good enough to use them for a few years until i can get something different.

I absolutly love the design of the aarms couldnt be any happier, inch tubing top and bottom and heims top and bottom, but i cant run around with **** like that. Its putting a lot of stress on the shock and will prolly bend a shaft someday if i dont fix it.

[knobbyboy]

Dang, they must have been drinking when they welded that one!

(Is that the Dyna Port pipe I sent you?):)

[Honda 250r 001]

yep it sure is! I love that pipe, I swear by it now. Although i still havnt got it re chromed yet. :P

[deathman53]

I can see how one side is messed up. I didn't catch it at first. The clear pictures showed it. I couldn't see it at first, it looks like your frame is alittle bent. It threw me off. I think almost every 250r frame is somewhat bent. They should fix that a-arm, regardless.

[woodsracer144]

Originally posted by Honda 250r 001
here is a veiw of both showing the croockedness of the left bottom arm.

looks to me like the left one is bent back a little like from getting hit or some thing...

[Honda 250r 001]

Originally posted by woodsracer144
looks to me like the left one is bent back a little like from getting hit or some thing...

its actually built wrong. Not bent.

[kouki]

Ya, in the first pic you can see where the tubes are welded off center, like one is moved in about 1/4 inch or so from the other, making the whole arm crooked when mounted. That sucks dude. Did you buy them new? If so they should send you at least the arm you need at no charge, that's on the manufacturer, you shouldn't have to eat the cost of their errors.

[Honda 250r 001]

Originally posted by kouki
Ya, in the first pic you can see where the tubes are welded off center, like one is moved in about 1/4 inch or so from the other, making the whole arm crooked when mounted. That sucks dude. Did you buy them new? If so they should send you at least the arm you need at no charge, that's on the manufacturer, you shouldn't have to eat the cost of their errors.

ya man thats exactly whats wrong! i think i can fix this one if the company wont make me a new one.

[HondaATC500X]

If that arm was made in a fixture it wouldn't matter whether that tube was in exactly the same position (geometry, speaking) because the pivot joints and the ball joint socket would be stationary solid on the jig and however the 2 points meet are more or less irrelevant. Now, that being said, with it further to the inside like that, its not as supported as well on the outside like that and the leverage on that tube isn't supported as well as it is on the other side.

That should have been a 5 minute deal to make sure it was equal with the other side tube though.