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axle wrap possible solution
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84gmcjimmy
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woah! Thats different /forums/images/graemlins/thinking.gif
84_Chevy_K10
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Looks like bind city.
sled_dog
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eh if you consider the center of the axle really moves, the LEAST I don't think it will be bad. When the bushing binds the leaves twist. Maybe you will wear out the spring but seeing as its not doing any suspending duties I don't see why that would really matter till they break.
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odly enough, it seems to have reduced on-road body roll
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Maybe because it is binding? I don't see how it can compensate for the difference in spring lenghts as the suspension cycles.
odly enough, it seems to have reduced on-road body roll
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Maybe because it is binding? I don't see how it can compensate for the difference in spring lenghts as the suspension cycles.
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? I think that it would work better if it had a shackle mount from the spring eye to the axle housing instead of being mounted solid
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that would negate any of the anti wrap effect
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Ya, I thought of that after I posted and edited what I said. Some guys around here run ladder type bars from the axle to the frame and connect them with a shackle and it seems to work well, that's what i was thinking.
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? I think that it would work better if it had a shackle mount from the spring eye to the axle housing instead of being mounted solid
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that would negate any of the anti wrap effect
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Ya, I thought of that after I posted and edited what I said. Some guys around here run ladder type bars from the axle to the frame and connect them with a shackle and it seems to work well, that's what i was thinking.
I know he claims it works...but I'd love to see how it performs with some real power. There is no triangulation there, and I can guarantee he is giving up some flex as well.
Any anti-wrap contraption that uses the existing leafs as the lower link for triangulation is doomed to fail. The forward half of the leafs is what takes all the abuse already. I don't see anything there that'll prevent them from deflecting into and 'S' shape under hard power.
Rene
Any anti-wrap contraption that uses the existing leafs as the lower link for triangulation is doomed to fail. The forward half of the leafs is what takes all the abuse already. I don't see anything there that'll prevent them from deflecting into and 'S' shape under hard power.
Rene
And how solid are those two lower links? An anti-wrap bar is meant to save the springs from having to deal with housing rotation...not use the weakest part of the suspension as a structural link for triangulation.
It's a poor design IMO.
Rene
It's a poor design IMO.
Rene
are you samiliar with the Caltrax linkage and its effect on SS drag racing?
the housing cannot pivot as freely with the third spring mounted up high like that
I am not selling this idea, just thought it was a novel lowbuck approach that I think works
the housing cannot pivot as freely with the third spring mounted up high like that
I am not selling this idea, just thought it was a novel lowbuck approach that I think works
i dont think its optimal either, but it is cheap and it might work for those of us who don't have a blown BB and aren't in love with the skinny pedal. I like crawlin slow and easy and my engine is an almost entirely stock 350. I hardly ever "hammer down" if I can avoid it so maybe something like this would work for me...
Those X-joints can rotate 30 degrees before they bind at all, and then the spring should have some flex in it... from the centerline of the axle thats quite a bit of flex. Guy who sells em on pirate says you'd need a spring with 2.5" ID for the joint to fit though... local spring shop might be able to do something like that relatively cheap...
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Those X-joints can rotate 30 degrees before they bind at all, and then the spring should have some flex in it... from the centerline of the axle thats quite a bit of flex. Guy who sells em on pirate says you'd need a spring with 2.5" ID for the joint to fit though... local spring shop might be able to do something like that relatively cheap...
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