- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
That was a short sleep, a sure sign of a genius!!Your sort of on the right lines here Pete .....
Although it's not quite that simple, as usual....
Having panhard on the rear axle, I've got it, and it's the best way for what I've got, Watts linkage would work, but again, there's a fairly important feature on the axle that would need a fairly substantial mounting made, to get round it. Also it's just more moving parts. Panhard will do fine
The drive axle, cannot have either panhard or watts, there just isn't space, so that kinda scuppers the simple A frame idea, there's also a transmission sitting just where you'd want to anchor the A frame!
So, a pair of trailing arms, much like your pic, with a stabilising A frame at the top, giving three point mounting, which should keep the axle in check in all directions, and negate the need for a panhard or watts link.
Oh, and just to complicate things, the lower arms will have to be load bearing, and have air bags on them, as there isn't any room to fit them directly above the axle, as I'm doing on the rear......
Just ideas at the mo, the mad fecker in the design dept may change his mind yet
Oh, and well done, you've successfully drawn me into to a conversation about this, when I said I'd elaborate later....my fault really, for mentioning it at all.....good to get your thinking cap on though
I get exactly what you mean, as I scrolled through the entire thread zooming on pictures (and then lost my phone on the farm for 3 hours because it wasn't zipped in my pocket where I hurdled the fence
Not much room in there at all, so you have already come to the same conclusion about mounting it on trailing links with the bags on top!!
Unfortunately the pressure on those bags would be greater than the lazy axle, due to leverage, so there goes the 'hydrolastic" idea.. as you'd end up with more weight on the new axle than the driven one? Unless the bags were behind the axle, if there was space.
Plenty of time for all that, I'll keep thinking about it. Bloody good work I love ambitious projects especially when they're carried out by a master.