A panhard bar is the same. And yes, when the axle drops, it move more to
one side. This doesn't affect anything.
As for drive ability on the road, You can not tell the difference from
stock. It drives like a dream, very smooth, no wandering, and no bump steer.
I went with coilover, I can get better droop with this setup than leaf
springs. Alot of people do leaf springs because it is very easy to set up.
I could do a leaf spring truck in 2 weeks, it took 2 months to do my
truck. most of the time was waiting on parts.
A coilover is a tricky setup, but you get tons of adjustment when done.
If I want to raise the truck, all i do is screw the collar down.
Alot of design work went into this, so it isn't going to be easy. But it
does works !!! I can go places that I never thought possible before the
coilover setup!!
Tom
jon@dakota-truck.net wrote:
>Tom Buban <biokiller@ameritech.net> wrote:
>
>: Jon-
>
>: This is still a 3 link. You go by whats on the axle.
>
>
> Good to know; thanks! :-)
>
>
>: As for lateral
>: movement, I have a track bar. This stop all lateral movement.
>: There isn't that much stress to the frame, but I did beef it up. I have
>: 1/4" plate on both sides to attach the jonny joint to.
>
>
> Is a track bar the same as a panhard bar? This would be a bar
>running from somewhere on the frame to the axle itself? If so, does
>the axle tend to move to one side as the suspension droops?
>
>
> Oh, one other question I thought of while I'm bugging ya about
>it ;-) - what made you decide to go with a coil over spring as
>opposed to leaves? I found a page where a guy did a solid front
>axle swap on a Toyota and his reason for going with leaves was
>because he knew of a couple of coil over trucks and they had a
>lot of problems - something about the link angles needing to
>be perfect ? Said the one truck was undriveable on the highway
>over 35mph. I guess that's all a part of having the experience
>and knowhow of how to set up a suspension. His comments did
>get me a bit worried though, a coilover suspension seemed to
>be the way to go and easier to bolt in...
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