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Radius arm flex

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Post by Struth »

greenslinky wrote:Hi Struth,forgive my ignorance but i can't see why you need to locate the front radius arm bolt/bush in a direct line through the axle to the chassis mount.Flipping the arms on top with new brackets set to re-align castor seems to work.I know it doesn't get away from the fact that you still have the same axle chassis relationship if you used the same front locating points inverted or not.But if the front reference point is raised so the axle is no longer the centre ,shouldn't this give you a new axle chassis relationship(like the opposite of a drop box instead on top of your diff).Aren't you achieving a similar concept to drop boxes just with heaps more work? Cheers Andrew. P.S. pics are really good.
It's all in the arc scribed by the axle as it travels up and down with the suspension, doesn't matter where the radius arm attaches to the axle, if you don't alter either the spring height, arc radius or radius arm to chassis mounting point then you don't alter the suspensions geometry, all you do is reposition the radius arms attachment point to the axle. This will offer you clearence benifits and very little if anything else.

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Post by greenslinky »

Point taken,it does make perfict sense on paper.It' got me thinking,need to take some measurements.Good chating you Struth ,will talk further.

regards Andrew.
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