Mounting up an A frame.
Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 12:54 am
As some of you may know, I'm modding a 100" IIa SWB.
Sundays jpb is to manufacture a X-member to go in which will have a Rover A-frame mounted onto it and then welded to the chassis.
Regarding this, I've noticed that when the A-Frame is laying on the ground, upsidedown, the chassis mounting flanges are flat on the ground. As soon as I move the A-Frame to lift it, while it rotates in the chasssi bushes the flanges are forced to rotate away from the flat plane. Admittedly it does have rubber bushes, but is this normal and cause a lot of binding as the suspension lifts and drops, and if this is correct, then do the plates or X-members fail? It just all looks a bit dodgy to me.
Sundays jpb is to manufacture a X-member to go in which will have a Rover A-frame mounted onto it and then welded to the chassis.
Regarding this, I've noticed that when the A-Frame is laying on the ground, upsidedown, the chassis mounting flanges are flat on the ground. As soon as I move the A-Frame to lift it, while it rotates in the chasssi bushes the flanges are forced to rotate away from the flat plane. Admittedly it does have rubber bushes, but is this normal and cause a lot of binding as the suspension lifts and drops, and if this is correct, then do the plates or X-members fail? It just all looks a bit dodgy to me.