I just finished up the install of my PATV arched forward a-arms. The arms look great, are super heavy duty compared with the originals, and at full droop my wheels still turn ok so the stock axles should be alright. Only time there is any issue is at full droop with the wheels turned all the way to one side or the other, which I think it is a pretty rare occurrence.

Install was a pain on my bike because of my skids and extreme front bumper, had to take a lot of that off/apart to get at the lower front a-arm mounting bolt.

PATV packaged and shipped them well and they arrived with little to no damage on the powder coat. This is a lot more than I can say for my Cfab stretched trailing arms, but I’ll cover that in another review when I finish that install. Fitment was great with one caveat. Bushings (garage products) fit nice and tight, ball joints pressed in OK. Only problem I had was the ball joint mounting plate on each bottom arm hit the brake rotors and I had to do some grinding to get proper clearance here between the plate and rotor all the way through the suspension travel range. Ground it down, put a nice radius on it, and coated it with some duplicolor bedliner material. We’ll see how well that holds up. I also had to chase the threads for the grease fittings before I could install them but no big deal.

Arms pushed the tires about 2 inches forward, and with my shocks set same as before the arms were installed are giving me 2.5" to 3" of lift. Once I get the rear done and these garage products bushings broken in a little (they are pretty tight) I plan on adjusting preload again on shocks, but this was more lift than I had hoped for.

If anyone has any questions on these arms, let me know. I will update this thread with some pictures once I finish up the rear and get an alignment done.