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Ive been reading on this forum and alot of people talk about "nice flex" when refering to suspension and all can someone please explain to me what "Flex" is meant to mean exactly
basically wheel travel, so the more wheel travel the more opportunity to keep the tyres on the ground and keep your grip etc. Wheel travel being the amount of movement where the tyre can go as high as possible into the guard so compressed fully, to full droop where the wheel is hanging as far down as it can. This is limited by shock length, arms connecting the diff to the body, bump stops etc. Hpe that helps?
beretta wrote:basically wheel travel, so the more wheel travel the more opportunity to keep the tyres on the ground and keep your grip etc. Wheel travel being the amount of movement where the tyre can go as high as possible into the guard so compressed fully, to full droop where the wheel is hanging as far down as it can. This is limited by shock length, arms connecting the diff to the body, bump stops etc. Hpe that helps?
Thanks Beretta also go the SIGNATURE 4x4 TV RULES!!!
A more accurate word for flex might be "articulation" This refers to to the diagonal movement of the wheels (i.e the distance one tyre can move up onto an obstacle with the other three on the ground)
Travel is the distance the whole axle can move vertically. This is often a much smaller figure as it doesn't take any leverage or the effect of track width into account.
Steve.
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here mine 37", 2"rear spring up front, standard 80series front spring in the back, and lsd front and back
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[quote="greg"] some say he is a man without happy dreams, or that he sees silver linings on clouds and wonders why they are not platinum... all we know, is he's called the stevie.[/quote]
ljxtreem wrote:No body lift, no susspension lift 37's
Flex is over rated anyway
Mock
no body=no body lift
[quote="greg"] some say he is a man without happy dreams, or that he sees silver linings on clouds and wonders why they are not platinum... all we know, is he's called the stevie.[/quote]
wtf is with the tyres? 
