Polaris Pro R High Clearance Trailing Arms - By Z-Broz Racing
ZBROZ Polaris Pro R and Turbo R high clearance trailing arms are built for maximum durability with improved ground clearance gains, and increased strength. Breaking an OEM trailing arms when you are miles from the trailhead is no joke. Dragging them at every step or obstacle is annoying. That’s why we increased ground clearance and durability for those trail-pounding, rock-crawling, and go-fast rides.
We’ve designed our high-clearance trailing arms to be stronger than OEM and the competition! Built from a combination of 1.75” & 1.5” DOM steel tube with added plate reinforcements in key locations to improve strength and twisting durability. Zbroz kits include new direct bolt-on replacement Adjustable Toe Links. Zbroz makes adjusting the rear-toe links easy with our single adjustment point that can be done while the car is on the ground. Plus, your adjustments will stay in place on hard rides unlike the stock adjustment cam bolt.
FEATURES AND BENEFITS:
- 1.75” & 1.5” DOM steel tube
- Gain up-to 2” of ground clearance.
- Heavy-duty spherical joint at pivot
- Reinforced steel plating
- Compatible with OEM shocks and sway bar link rods
- Easy do-it-yourself installation using a floor jack and common metric tools.
These rock slider steps have an interesting design and look good, unfortunately the build quality is less than expected. First, the access holes for the bolts are tight - whether they are too small or the coating makes them too small, I don’t know. I do know that it made the installation challenging. Once the bolts are seated and the nuts are tightened, the socket is wedged between the bolt head and the side of the access hole so tightly that you cannot remove the socket. I had to loosen the nut, pull the bolt partway back so I could remove the socket and then advance the bolt, wedge it in place with a flat screwdriver and tighten the nut from the other side. Especially challenging since the other side doesn’t allow room for a ratchet or closed wrench so you have to do it with the open side of a wrench. 5 out of 6 of the access holes were like this. The other worked like a charm and was super easy.
Secondly, the screws for the replaceable protector piece are easily jammed and broken. I read the instructions to take extra care to seat them properly but that doesn’t help when you cannot even remove some of them without them locking up and breaking off if you apply too much force. No matter how I seated them, I had 2 on one side and 5-7 of them on the other side that would get halfway in and lock up. I gave up and bought TEK screws and used them instead.
Thirdly, the welds were not uniform and looked amateurish. Fortunately they’re mostly hidden.
We’ll see how they perform once I get them out on the trails and rocks.
