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Andy
Ready for SVA
Joined: Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:22 pm Posts: 363 Location: Ireland
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Rear Locking Arms
I'm in the midst of designing and building a set of rear locking arms for the Coupe as the "Rossa Bitz" ones won't work with my caliper setup (already been in contact with Alan), for those of you in the know can you take a look at this and see if I've overlooked something or need to change something. Hopefully its readable, Andy
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Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:10 pm |
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Dino
Ready for SVA
Joined: Wed Oct 03, 2007 8:54 pm Posts: 375
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Re: Rear Locking Arms
Sorry, I can't quite see. Am I to assume the outer pivot point is vertically aligned with the pivot point of the top arm ball joint?
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Wed Nov 11, 2009 1:39 am |
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Andy
Ready for SVA
Joined: Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:22 pm Posts: 363 Location: Ireland
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Re: Rear Locking Arms
Dino, Struggling to find a format that I can upload, try this one
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Wed Nov 11, 2009 10:17 am |
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West
Admin, and Coupe Nutter
Joined: Fri Sep 14, 2007 10:34 pm Posts: 1762 Location: In the workshop GTM: Cox/Coupe
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Re: Rear Locking Arms
If im looking at things correctly. you have all the pivots in the same place, inner/outer steering to top arm so this should be fine. Very simular to the locking arms I started to make as an interm fix but never 100% finished . is the 10mm under the arm a spacer between arm and hub? as you can then play with finer postion of this to dial in or out that tiny bit of bump steer, it can actually be a benefit to dail a little in some cases/school of thought The inner pivot will need a brace like alans set up, or I came up with a slightly different approach due to my frame etc. West
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Wed Nov 11, 2009 1:47 pm |
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Andy
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Joined: Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:22 pm Posts: 363 Location: Ireland
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Re: Rear Locking Arms
West,
thanks for your reply, yes the 10mm packer is there for just that reason, its probably 1mm low but I kept it at this so it could be shimmed if necessary, the inner pivot extension will be braced off the subframe for support its just not detailed on this dwg.
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Wed Nov 11, 2009 2:09 pm |
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turbocox
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Joined: Mon Oct 01, 2007 7:25 pm Posts: 974 Location: Near Milton Keynes GTM: Cox/Coupe
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Re: Rear Locking Arms
Looks good to me
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Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:46 pm |
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Dino
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Joined: Wed Oct 03, 2007 8:54 pm Posts: 375
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Re: Rear Locking Arms
WEST wrote: ... it can actually be a benefit to dail a little [bumpsteer] in some cases/school of thought ... I've come across this thought before - can you explain why that should be? I'm still very much at the learning stage with suspension setup!
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Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:11 am |
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Andy
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Joined: Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:22 pm Posts: 363 Location: Ireland
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Re: Rear Locking Arms
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Fri Nov 13, 2009 10:31 pm |
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