dw1603
Part of things
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Dec 12, 2012 14:30:07 GMT
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you can just see the forward links are triangulated. in fact you can just see both mounting bolts in your pic, they look like normal 4 link mounts. but that essentially makes the front links very short ladder bars, which would move in an arc, working against the rear links, and presumably binding up before it moved much, if it all. I can't see any shocks in either rear end photo. I wonder if the top link that gives the impression of a ladder bar is actually a pivoted link heading to a lever arm friction shock like those fitted on the front? If you look at the reflection in the trunk floor there are a couple of interesting points. The links circled in yellow could be for the shock absorbers, they seem to be on a similar alignment to the torsion bars. And those leading links, as Dez points out, they would cause the four bar linkage to bind and severely inhibit rear suspension travel if they were rigid. Could that be a sliding joint in the link? (circled in red) If it is, the suspension would work but then you have to ask why are the links there at all? Possibly they are sprung or damped in compression and function as some sort of anti tramp device? Maybe they are the shock absorbers themselves? Pretty ineffective location, but stranger things have happened. What do Seth and Dez think?
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Dez
Club Retro Rides Member
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Dec 12, 2012 14:43:52 GMT
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i think DW is right, the round chrome thing you can see in front of the axle mounted to the chassis (centre bottom in the above pic) is a model A rear shock- www.mikes-afordable.com/miva/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=M18015K&Category_Code=2100(you can see it best in the LHS reflection). which then has the lever arms like the ones in the link above connected to the axle with a linkage as you would expect. I'm still pretty certain the front links act as ladder bars though, looking again at the pics they definately have 4 axle mounts but only two chassis mounts, and are triangulated. which would make the rear links redundant, so i don't know what the hell they're for!
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Dez
Club Retro Rides Member
And I won't sit down. And I won't shut up. And most of all I will not grow up.
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Dec 12, 2012 15:07:55 GMT
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just found this on the HAMB- which shows a fore/aft split 4-link, with less lower links welded to the axle. theres only one mounting point on the lower axle brackets, where they're clearly two bars attached there in the finished pics. the shock setup is clearly visible too. i have a suspicion the 4-link didnt quite work as intended so the front links were turned into ladder bars to make it work as they were up against it time wise. i might be wrong though.
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