Off-Road Steering and Suspension links. DOM Steel vs. 7075 Aluminum strength testing.

 

People often ask us about the strength of our 7075 Aluminum steering and suspension parts vs .250" wall DOM steel. We've shown in other videos how well it works in the real world, but here we went for a more scientific route. We put 2 pieces of 1.5" diameter material into our tubing bender, one was the solid aluminum bar we use in all of our steering kits, and the other is the .250" wall DOM steel tubing many of our competitors use. We bent each of them 25 degrees and used a gauge on the pressure side of our hydraulic ram setup to record the comparative force required. We then released the pressure and measured how much each one sprung back towards straight. In both cases the Aluminum fared better.