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Old 06-27-2008, 05:08 PM   #12
LONGHAIR
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Re: Rear shock questions

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If you look in the one pictures where it up, the wishbone link is pointing up, away from the lower arms, at the front of the wishbone. When it's aired down, the links are paraell.

Since the main arms are solid mounted, when you rotate the frame, the upper link is pivoting but not the lower arms. Basically the upper link is then pushing and pulling the rotation of the axle in relation to the frame, causing it to change height.

I think you need to rethink your setup and actually use proper suspension geometry, based on correct math, center point, rotation, etc., etc.
That should not bother anything. The wishbone slides, so it changes length to follow the travel of the lowers. As long as there is no bind, from the wishbone "limiting" something one direction or the other, there really is no load on the wishbone at all...except side to side to keep the axle centered.
Even at that, it is not going to change the pinion angle (rotate the axle) because the axle is u-bolted to the lower arms, like stock.
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