During our recent trip to Arbuckle Off Road I customized my stock rear lower radius rods. Looks great from here!

Oops! Doesn’t look so great from here.

After a little research I decided on going with the Lone Star high clearance rods. In matching red of course.

Before installing I took the LS joints apart and cleaned all the machining debris out of them, then filled them with marine grease. I zip tied the outer end so it wouldn’t fall apart while I got the inner bolt in.

Install is simple enough with the rear tires removed. A 15mm wrench and socket will do it. The lower bolt was on pretty tight. The inner nut is a little hard get a wrench on but not bad.

I took the bent rod to the anvil and hammered it out straight to get an eye to eye measurement of 20.25". Not perfectly straight but good enough. Next I took one of the hiems out and measured about 1.5" of threads. Once the Lone Star rod was adjusted to the 20.25" there was about .5" of threads left in each end. I noticed LS already had anti-seize on the rod threads.

I installed the inner bolt first, then used a ratchet strap to help line up the outer bolt holes. I used a pair of pliers to compress the outer rod seals a little to get the joint in the slot. No sweat.

The second one was a breeze! Its raining so I haven’t had a chance to give it a ride yet. I saw no clearance issues at full droop. I saw the Lone Stars on another machine at Arbuckle take rocks big enough to pick the tire up off the ground with no damage. I expect these to last a long time.

During our recent trip to Arbuckle Off Road I customized my stock rear lower radius rods. Looks great from here!

Oops! Doesn’t look so great from here.

After a little research I decided on going with the Lone Star high clearance rods. In matching red of course.

Before installing I took the LS joints apart and cleaned all the machining debris out of them, then filled them with marine grease. I zip tied the outer end so it wouldn’t fall apart while I got the inner bolt in.

Install is simple enough with the rear tires removed. A 15mm wrench and socket will do it. The lower bolt was on pretty tight. The inner nut is a little hard get a wrench on but not bad.

I took the bent rod to the anvil and hammered it out straight to get an eye to eye measurement of 20.25". Not perfectly straight but good enough. Next I took one of the hiems out and measured about 1.5" of threads. Once the Lone Star rod was adjusted to the 20.25" there was about .5" of threads left in each end. I noticed LS already had anti-seize on the rod threads.

I installed the inner bolt first, then used a ratchet strap to help line up the outer bolt holes. I used a pair of pliers to compress the outer rod seals a little to get the joint in the slot. No sweat.

The second one was a breeze! Its raining so I haven’t had a chance to give it a ride yet. I saw no clearance issues at full droop. I saw the Lone Stars on another machine at Arbuckle take rocks big enough to pick the tire up off the ground with no damage. I expect these to last a long time.