Sometimes I just feel like I have no idea what I'm doing.
I just want to make an adjustable panhard bar for the Celica. Just a couple of rod ends, jam nuts, and internally threaded rod. So I checked out McMaster-Carr. Rod ends, no problem. Nuts, no problem. But for the life of me I can't find the internally threaded rod. I guess I just don't know what to search. In a perfect world, I'd find something with a hex shape to put a wrench on and threaded left-hand one side and right-hand the other. But if all I can get is regular right hand thread, that'll work fine. Just a little more involved to adjust.
There has to be such a thing available, doesn't there?
There is, and you can get them in both threads, the parts to make my suspension on the Escort were bought from there.
I'm not sure on part numbers, though... if someone doesn't come up with the answer beforehand, i can ask my fab guy. 
Hope someone knows a solution like that. I did find this at Pit Stop USA:
http://pitstopusa.com/c-133941-chassis-components-steel-tubing-threaded-tubing-ends.html
I could just use steel rod and weld these on. But hope what I'm looking for exists out there somewhere. And, if I'm greedy, I'd want it in aluminum... I think. The car wighs 2300 lbs. in race trim and that's pretty porky for FSP.
http://www.qa1.net/qa1_motorsports/circle-track/rod-end-accessories/swaged-tubes-3-4.html
Something like that?
Or also this?
Try McMaster part number 3082T666 - closed body turnbuckle center section. It's available in a variety of threads.
In reply to MG Bryan:
Yes, something exactly like that. Thank you. Just need to go measure my bar and see what length I need. Looks like a lunch hour trip to the house is in order.
Thanks!
http://www.mcmaster.com/#tube-end-weld-nuts/=h6sy89
These are what you want - weld them into the tube size of your choice. You can also get them at every circle track / chassis supply place.
fast_eddie_72 wrote:
In reply to MG Bryan:
Yes, something *exactly* like that. Thank you. Just need to go measure my bar and see what length I need. Looks like a lunch hour trip to the house is in order.
Thanks!
That'll be my one useful post for the day then. 
Awesome. That gave me what I needed- just found this with the google machine. That's the aluminum ones in the pic MG Bryan posted.
http://www.speedwaymotors.com/AFCO-Swedged-Aluminum-Tubes-1-Inch-OD5-8-Inch,40991.html
EDIT: I am late, late, late...
I think those tubing ends look like a great idea. If you're concerned about weight, having the entire length of the stock you're going to use thick enough to be threaded is going to make it a fair bit heftier. Or so I'd suspect, anyway.
I thought I'd found the right area at McMaster, but they only seem to exist up to about 24", and less in the right/left threaded: http://www.mcmaster.com/#standard-connecting-rods/=h6t3c8
