ASR A-Arms

[PA_Banshee]

What's the deal with these a-arms? I've heard 370 and bigkahun talk about them briefly a few times in a bad way. They came on my banshee and I just wanted to know what the story was so I know what to watch out for with them.

[bigkahun74]

Originally Posted by PA_Banshee

What's the deal with these a-arms? I've heard 370 and bigkahun talk about them briefly a few times in a bad way. They came on my banshee and I just wanted to know what the story was so I know what to watch out for with them.

if you plan on doing any trail riding at all, be carefull. the bolts on the heim joints strip of easy while riding. also while yout riding in the trails you have to fight with them to get to where you want to go. they are more of a hassle than they are worth. then again it might just be the set that i got.. who knows. but these ASR a-arms are responsible for my broken collar bone. plus shipping on the damn things took over 2 months and that was getting them shipped to my local dealer. my local dealership called them every other day asking about them and their response was always "we forgot to send them out today, we'll get to it tomorrow." then a week after my broken collar bone 370 was out riding it in some trails and was on a straightaway and the right lower arm just fell apart at the heim joint.

i wouldn't recomend these to anyone!!!!!!!

[Banshee]

Wow I was looking at those on ebay awhile back. Glad I went with TBR instead. They look like a good deal with the lifetime warranty but I guess not if they are going to be in the warranty process more than the riding process. If you guys plan on getting new arms you should talk to Scott at SoceRacing he makes A-Arms

[PA_Banshee]

The 2nd ride I took on them the lower left heim joint's allen bolt fell out. That sucked when it happened on rocks at around 50 mph. Luckily I somehow found the allenbolt about 30ft back from where I eventually stopped. It wasn't broken or stripped. It just came that loose! The funny thing was that after I got home from that ride the thing was loose again. I just put some blue locktite on it and it's never been loose since.

I totally forgot about that incident with them. I will have to remove them all and put locktite on them. Isn't locktite wonderful!!!

My friend just bought a set of them and put a big dent in the one on his first ride. They said it should be 2 weeks for the warranty one to come in. It's about 2 weeks so hopefully it comes in this week, but from what you've said we won't be holding our breath.

[bigkahun74]

yeah i need to go out and put some loctite on these too.. i'm thinking red loctite that way if they do come off then something has to be really messed up for that to happen..

[PA_Banshee]

Haha, yeah tell me about it. I debated putting red on. That bolt seems solid yet so I think I'll leave it as is with the blue on it, but I still should probably take the other 3 out and coat them up.

[PA_Banshee]

Oh yeah, I also made a guard for these arms

If anybody has them or is gettin them let me know and I'll try to hook you up with a set. I kept the template we made so I could make extras in case I smack the hell out of these.

[370banshee]

PA you have the more expensive fully adjustable set so your mihgt not bad as bad. beibng that you can adjust yours. Big K had the cheaper ones and damn were they cheap. oh yeah 1st ride on em all the powdercoat starting flaking. they are just big pieces of shit. then again at least they wil botl on the bike unlike mine.

[PA_Banshee]

The powdercoating is already coming off of mine only after a few rides. That's why I made those guards.

[370banshee]

powder coat is supposed to be tough. maybe it's not even powder coat. i'd say ebay those and get your self soem nice ass arms like lobo's or lonestars