Staggered Shocks

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by SkinnyG

Staggered shocks (one pointing fore, one pointing aft), as I understand it, are to control axle wrap on a leaf-sprung vehicle - one controls acceleration, the other controls deceleration (since the axle will wrap the other way).

On a four-link (or equivalent), axle wrap becomes a non-issue, so the shocks are usually mounted the same on either side of the axle.

Staggered shocks are to control axle "tramp".

Tramp is like wheel hop, except instead of the axle bouncing up and down evenly the wheels bounce up and down alternately (left, then right, etc).

K