Suspension: designs, shapes, sizes
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====Leaf Spring==== | ====Leaf Spring==== | ||
| − | :Leaf spring rear suspension is much like a front leaf spring suspension minus the steering linkage and knuckles. Two leaf springs are | + | :Leaf spring rear suspension is much like a front leaf spring suspension minus the steering linkage and knuckles. Two leaf springs are mounted longitudinaly in the chassis and attach at their ends to the frame both at the front and back. Normally, one end of the spring is solid-mounted with a bolt/nut through a bushed eye to a bracket on the frame and the other end is connected through a shackle arrangement which allows no binding as the length of the spring changes during upward and downward movement of the differential. A solid axle differential is then mounted somewhere near the center of the springs. The springs also act as a lateral locator, though a panhard bar can be added to alter the roll center and to more positively locate the axle. |
====Triangulated 4 Link==== | ====Triangulated 4 Link==== | ||
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