The top plates are done, and I've now made the rear links by bending the rods around a piece of 60mm tube, which was held in a vice. I bent them in pairs so the left and right sides are identical. It proved to be a bit awkward to measure the lengths because I didn't know the exact angle they were going to end up being. So it was a bit of trial and error to begin with, and then I just trimmed the rods back until the wheelbase looked right. I may have gained about a quarter inch or so on the back but this may be beneficial as it sends the weight bias forwards. The links are now covered with heatshrink tubing, the lower ones will get spiral wrapped as well before we hit the rocks.
The shocks have been preloaded to get the springing about right - I made the spacers out of a piece of thin wall 15mm polished aluminium decorative tube. The back pair are just a couple of millimeters longer than the fronts to compensate for the forwards bias and resulting slight difference in shock angle.
