Re: This sound reasonable?

From: AlexReed (alexreed@home.com)
Date: Mon Feb 12 2001 - 20:04:51 EST


You have to have some flex. Otherwise you would break things apart. Suspension
system is the area that needs to be looked at. Sway bars, shocks, spring rates,
and a few hundred other things. Sorry, but if it was that rigid you would loose
control around a corner, one tire would be off the ground and it would just be
bad. Suspension mods are where its at. Later.

AR

Chris Spotts wrote:

> Alright, I've been throwing this idea around in my head for a while and I
> figured I'd see what you guys thought. I've noticed that when I'm driving
> and taking corners that I can see that the bed moves side to side in
> relation to the cab. Now, I'm thinking this probably isn't great for
> handling (duh) and I've seen that x-brace that they have out there. What I
> was wondering is what would happen if one were to connect the cab to the
> bed, maybe weld in some stuff between there or something. Would having the
> bed and cab connected have adverse effects? I'm assuming that there must be
> a reason why they aren't connected. Any thoughts? If this turns out to be
> a good idea, it's not patented, feel free to make it :-)
>
> Sorry it was kind of long,
>
> -Chris



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