> -----Original Message-----
> From: spitfires-owner@autox.team.net [mailto:spitfires-
> owner@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of jimmuller@rcn.com
>
> > However, this has no (well, a negligibly small) effect on
> > camber, because the wheel is not fixed to the suspension
> > upright; the wheel is always perpendicular to the
> > driveshaft.
>
> Not to put too fine a point on it (which I'll do anyway), but you mean
> halfshaft or axle. If the wheel was perpendicular to the driveshaft the
> car could only go around in circles, and rather dynamically-unstable
> circles they would be too!
A nice example of two nations divided by a common language! In British
parlance, the halfshaft or axle is often referred to as a driveshaft. What
Americans would call the driveshaft, we Brits are more likely to call the
propshaft.
Chers,
Bill.
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