help bag setup ideas

i am getting ready to bag mine and i was wanting to go for the slick look with the bed cut to a minimum so you can't tell i have bags i want everything stock looking with all the air setup hidden under the bed tank,bags,compressors and i want to leave the gas tank in the factory place anybody have any ideas or pics not sure if i want to go with a wishbone are a reverse 4 link are what please post some thanks

you do not want a reverse 4 link, period (geometry on it is all retarded). a wishbone is the best way to go to keep the gas tank in the stock location but you will still want to raise it so you don't drag through it. you will also want to raise the bed floor to hide everything. you going bag over axle or bag on bar?

do a 3" bodydrop on the bed and rear tri thats what im doing

I would buy some 1x1 square and some fuel line, make a basket at the end of the frame to accommodate the stock tank. Then do a clean/simple triangulated 4-link with your bags on the bars...

If not that then do like everyone above recommended, a wishbone setup...

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I wonder if having the lower link bars like that, extended past the axle for the bags, would solve the reverse link geometry problem?

Thats just weird... Especially how those shocks are mounted, lol...

seems like to me those shocks arent serving that much of a purpose.




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I use a reverse 4 link on my mazda and still have the stock gas tank, lifetd of course, and i still have shocks in a good location. I havent had any problems yet

Yah they dont look like they would do very much. Stay away from the reverse links like maztang said. You could do the wishbone which would be the easiest or you could do a parallel 3 link with a panhard bar or a watts link.

Anyone have pictures of a panhard bar setup, dont have to be a mazda, ive just never seen one...

This is a parallel 4-link with a watts setup...same basic concept as a panhard bar, but way better imo!







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