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Good gusset plan?
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Posted by: 300maniac

i will be gusseting my swinger soon and this is a rough scetch of what i think would be the best way. black is the swinger yellow is the gusset. i will probably only do the top (i dont have a wide variaty of steel)What do you think?

Posted by: 300maniac

wow thats big! tell me if you need it smaller

Posted by: 300maniac

here

Posted by: 300maniac

no one thinks this is a good idea can someone give me the go head to do this

Posted by: Nichols Atvs

I took a 1 inch x 3/16 piece on the bottom all the away up the swinger

Posted by: Steven623

Hi ,If its the round one, you should watch out for the pivot tube (front) will bend. I made my son's so it wouldn't bend and the pivot tube bent instead. It was ridden very little. The square tube ones are really nice! Good luck!

Posted by: drr5

just go to home depot and get a length of flat bar and weld it on the bottom of the swing arm not the top, you need to stand the flat bar up as you have illustrated in your post , trust me this will be more than sufficiant and you do need to add a piece of either square or round tubing between the pivot tube and the swing arm ill see if i can post some pics later of our swing arm

Posted by: Hetrick Racing

now thats a gussett
Your Idea is good I think your going a little big though

Posted by: 300maniac

hear it is it will be done tommorrow

Posted by: cz440

make sure this wont interfere with overflow bottle

Posted by: 300maniac

if the over flow bottle is there it will hit . but im relocating mine

Posted by: ecmini1

I see your wearing your new welder in well.

Posted by: 300maniac

bout time you replied lol i used my old arc welder actualy

Posted by: tom450r

i hope you havn't welded this yet, the shock bolt won't go through with out cutting your gusset. i did the same style gusset to my square tube swing-arm just a little shorter so the bolt would go thruogh. i aslo only did the top gusset because it doesn't have a problem bending up.

Posted by: 300maniac

mine clears the gusset

Posted by: tom450r

sounds good, looks like it will work for you, keep us up dated on how well it holds up.

Posted by: 300maniac

i sure will tom thanx for the compliments