Fabricated dislocation cones

As I live in NZ Landy parts aren't the cheapest, the terrafirma rear dislocation cones I was looking at were about $160 plus $100 postage from Australia (about 130GBP)

So, I took some measurements and fabricated my own from 6mm sheet steel, results below! I can upload the plans I used if anyone is interested in trying this themselves.


And yes, I'm still learning to weld, so it's a bit messy, but it'll certainly do!
Painted in PA-10 Aeronautical grade etch primer.

And here they are fitted.

Newbie here, would you mind sharing what exactly these do? I don't recall having seen them on all my other coil sprung vehicles. Thanks!

Sure mate, welcome!

When off roading, (especially with raised suspension) extreme axle travel means the top of the springs pop out of the spring seat but will not re-seat correctly, usually sitting a couple of inches off centre(to the left in the above pic), which means the tyres can rub on the springs, potentially damaging tyres and springs.

With the dislocation cones, the spring is dragged back into the correct possition as it re-seats.

They look ok to me but the proof will be in the pudding and if they are as good as the rest then you can start making lots of money

The welding looks fine mate, i have seen some dodgy stuff put down and called a weld lol..

Good idea on making your own, that was on my list of things to fabricate at some point. If you don't mind sharing your measurements, that would be good and also stop me from doing some back ally R&D

Thanks much for the description! The welds look fine to me. The guy who taught me to weld warned me that I'd gotten so good at grinding that I had no incentive to make my welds better

Here is the plans for them:



I tack welded the bolts through the smaller discs, welded on the large cone followed by the half cone shapes, then ground it all smooth and painted them.

To fit, jack up, remove wheel, pop springs out, carefull brakes don't hit the floor, put cone inside spring, put it all back together, bolt cone to larger disc as seen in 2nd pic.

looks good. well done

do you nz lot usually use imperial for bolts then? seems odd since your other measurements are in metric.

I prefer to work in metric, but I'm in the Airforce and all of our aircraft are ancient pieces of yank rubbish, so imperial parts are easy to "find"

gotcha

Nice work!

Cheers! It certainly helps working in building that contains a metal workshop, a machine shop and a wood shop!