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Fw: Torque links

To: "Bricklin" <bricklin@autox.team.net>
Subject: Fw: Torque links
From: "Greg Monfort" <wingracer@email.msn.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 12:08:27 -0500
>look you will see that as the car squats the links will twist the axle
>forwars thus winding up the leaf spring.  It is very poorly designed.
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Yep.
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  To
>work properly the links would have to be at least twice as long and fasten
>much further forward.
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Are you sure about that? Standard control link design requires that the
front pivot point is on the same vertical centerline as the front spring
mount and some value above it for any application beyond straight line
acceleration.

GM
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