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Old 09-19-2011 | 07:03 PM
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Originally Posted by EricJ
Others have told me that the B44 are the softest, then the B4, then the carbon (firmest). Doesn't mean that's correct, but it would make sense for various reasons.


Actually, I was confused by this recently. I bought a stack of spare buggy arms and some more 4wd buggy arms, and when they came in I thought they screwed up and sent me just B44 rear arms. However, in my brand new B4.1 FT kit (and marked B4 on the tags on the spare rear arms), all the rear arms had two balls. Interestingly, they were not inserted in the bag the same way. One had the bend in the arm closer to the tag and the other had it down, and they were consistently that way. I assume this indicates which is which, but there's nothing about the arms themselves that provides any indication of how they differ. I'd just stock one type if I knew the B44 arms were equal or better than the B4 rear arms. Just one less separate line item to stock...
There is actually a 4th arm so to speak. It was the standard arm of the B4 and not the carbon. It's stiffer than the b44 but softer than the carbon.

softest to firmest.

B4.1
B44.1
B4 (older)
carbon.

it's all very confusing and AE needs to standardize on the a-arms.
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