Patent ID: 7506444

Claim:
A method for making a vehicle suspension link, comprising: providing a sheet of ultra high strength steel; stamping from the sheet of ultra high strength steel first and second link plates, each with a similarly shaped, rigid, generally planar body and first and second laterally extending bushing apertures disposed adjacent opposite ends thereof; forming first and second spacers each having a rigid body with a central bushing aperture; rigidly attaching opposite ends of the first and second spacers with the first and second link plates with the central bushing apertures arranged concentric with the first and second apertures in the first and second link plates to fixedly retain the first and second link plates in a mutually parallel, laterally spaced apart and aligned relationship to define the vehicle suspension link; heating the vehicle suspension link to a predetermined temperature sufficient for heat treating the ultra high strength steel; quenching the vehicle suspension link to harden the ultra high strength steel; and mounting bushings in the first and second bushing apertures in the vehicle suspension link.