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If i put in the third top link, do you think it would bind or work against the other arms if i just left in all the time on the road? I don't mind putting it in and out when i want to go for a wheel, it's only a couple of minutes but it would be one less thing to worry about if it can stay in
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It will bind with all bolts fitted in the radius arms, plus an upper 3rd link.
Flex is the bushes is the only thing that will help and on road it may just be enough. It wont cost you anything to trial carefully on road (may have bad under/over steer) and worst case you will have to either remove the upper 3rd link or remove front bolts from radius arms.
zookimal wrote:While I can't say I've tried it, in principle if you left the top link in all the time it would cause it to bind up big time wouldn't it? Unless the arc it travelled in was complimentary to that of the radius arms and their effect on pinion angle throughout travel?
With the upper link in and 2 radius arm bolts removed it would behave the same as a normal 3link+panhard as long as the radius arms had room to move within their diff bracketry/mounts?
Could useful (or worthwhile) geometry be attained based on using the arms as lower links?
It is possible to leave the link in and then pull the front bolts for flex. You would just need to run the chassis mount of the top link in line with the chassis mounts on the radius arms. Then the twin bushes on the radius arms are just a complicate anti-roll device.
And you would have a HEAP of anti-squat, the Pirate4X4 article should talk about that in more detail.
Again, just piss the radius arms off and make links that grab the factory rear mount points. You can then leave all of your factory mount points in tact and put the factory radius arms back at a whim.
