Anyone recognize this lift kit?

[Fairtax4me]

It needs bushings and I’m thinking this might actually be a US made kit, so might be able to get them from the manufacturer, IF I can figure out who made it.
It looks like a decent kit. Has SAE grade 8 hardware, not the cheapo metric stuff they put on the Cheapo kits.





Any ideas?

[TahoeDawgZ71]

Looks like a Jake's Double A-Arm kit to me.

[dundeebarnbuggy]

Yep. DON'T waste your time with new bushings from Jake's, they're $#it! Been there done that. Lasted a little over a year. Get a chunk of 932 bronze and make em. Add grease zerks and done. Cart steers/handles amazing for a lifted buggy. I did a little thread on this a while back titled A arm bushings.

[Fairtax4me]

Thanks Dawg! I'll give them a call and find out what I can.

[Fairtax4me]

Originally Posted by dundeebarnbuggy

Yep. DON'T waste your time with new bushings from Jake's, they're $#it! Been there done that. Lasted a little over a year. Get a chunk of 932 bronze and make em. Add grease zerks and done. Cart steers/handles amazing for a lifted buggy. I did a little thread on this a while back titled A arm bushings.

You assume that I have a machine shop... and time...
I actually do have time, but I want to spend it working on my own projects.

Appreciate the tip, although I already know this customer won't want to pay for all that. It needs other work as well and already looking at close to 2Gs for batteries and other repairs, and a controller upgrade.
Bushings are generally kind of generic, and since these appear to be standard sized I may be able to source some polyurethane ones that work better than the original rubbery ones. Either way, with the amount of use this cart gets I think they'll last a lot longer than a year.

[ls1chris]

Originally Posted by Fairtax4me

You assume that I have a machine shop... and time...
I actually do have time, but I want to spend it working on my own projects.

Appreciate the tip, although I already know this customer won't want to pay for all that. It needs other work as well and already looking at close to 2Gs for batteries and other repairs, and a controller upgrade.
Bushings are generally kind of generic, and since these appear to be standard sized I may be able to source some polyurethane ones that work better than the original rubbery ones. Either way, with the amount of use this cart gets I think they'll last a lot longer than a year.

do you have a lowes nearby? when i redid the convertible top frame for my '68 firebird all the hinge bushing were blown out and obsolete , i went looking at lowes and they had hundreds of brass / rubber/ nylon bushings.

[ls1chris]

Originally Posted by dundeebarnbuggy

Yep. DON'T waste your time with new bushings from Jake's, they're $#it! Been there done that. Lasted a little over a year. Get a chunk of 932 bronze and make em. Add grease zerks and done. Cart steers/handles amazing for a lifted buggy. I did a little thread on this a while back titled A arm bushings.

took a bit to find that , some nice work in that thread! i wish i had a lathe.

[jonr3]

I would recommend measuring your existing bushings and then purchasing some identical urethane bushings - last much longer and are stiffer which will eliminate a lot of excess lateral movement. I just posted a thread about my experience a couple of days ago: https://www.buggiesgonewild.com/showthread.php?t=187097

[dundeebarnbuggy]

Good luck finding urethane bushings that have a proper fit for a Jake's lift, I couldn't. As for metal bushings, the bore in the arms [since they have been welded,] are not all exactly the same size, thus the bushings will have to be adjusted to fit.

[jonr3]

Originally Posted by dundeebarnbuggy

Good luck finding urethane bushings that have a proper fit for a Jake's lift, I couldn't. As for metal bushings, the bore in the arms [since they have been welded,] are not all exactly the same size, thus the bushings will have to be adjusted to fit.

I would have thought that Jake's would use standard size bushings like Allsports and Rhox have done, instead of a custom size. Energy Suspension seems to have a large selection of urethane bushings and I was able to change them out on my Allsports and Rhox lift kits.