Tom, Brent Edinger and I purchased several sets of fulcrum pins from Derek and they were completely unacceptable. None of them were the same length as eachother, the slots on the sides were randomly
I'm looking into monel as a possible material -- I recall that the USCG used that for prop shafts on the 40" utility boats with twin Jimmy 6-71's. Rarely broke under the worst kinds of conditions ima
In "Engineer to Win" Carroll Smith tells about the time that someone decided to make Can-Am rear halfshafts out of maraging steel. This is a superalloy of sorts with a very high yield stress and is u
How 'bout Inconel. It is what they went to when the wing bolts of the King 200s were starting to snap from turbulence. Truth be told fixing the ackerman problem would probably solve 99% of the pin pr
I agree. According to DrMayf 's analysis, Dale's ackerman angle kit only makes a 2 degree imporovement, while another 7 degrees is needed. http://www.mayfco.com/steering.htm How 'bout Inconel. It is
In measurements on my car, On the Tiger, the turning radius were reversed, i.e. the inside wheel had a larger turning radius (26 degrees & 5 minutes), that the outside wheel (30 degrees & 15 minutes)
I could be wrong ,but as a retired professional tech and one with several friends still in the business, the first comment we all have one looking at the tiger front end is WTF. the ackerman angle is