3 and 4 link calculator help.

[Ben-e-boy]

G'day.

Recently I downloaded the 3 and 4 link calculators, and to help me navigate my way around it I started off putting in the figures from my patrol to see an on paper difference between the stock lower control arms and the long arm kit.

I have done it in the 3 link calculator so I could include the panhard bar, but the 3 link calculator obviously has only 3 links to graph. Would this make a significant difference to the maths seeing that one of the control arms is completely missing?

Also seeing as the 3 link calculator has no option to graph the suspension at any point in travel besides ride height I have used the 4 link calculator to try to do this. There is a bit of difference in some of he figures but would this difference completely misrepresent what is actually going on?

Cheers
Benny.


Here is some pictures of graphs, the sprung and unsprung weights are a guess currently.

3link long arm calc.png

4link long arm calc.png

[Ben-e-boy]

Here is the other graph

4 link stock arm calc.png

[AFeral]

I would say your patrol weigh closer to 5000lbs
Here are some ways to calculate other aspects of your patrol
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