Re: IFS vs.live axle

From: Chris Lang (langcj@clarkson.edu)
Date: Thu Dec 09 1999 - 15:10:23 EST


Am I confused here or does IFS stand for Independent Front Suspension?? How
could you have IFS all the way around? Wouldn't it be IFS in the front and
IRS in the back???

Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: Cale Henry Bargen <vencomatic@ameritech.net>
To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 1999 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: DML: IFS vs.live axle

> All right - I'm jumping into this one head-first. If IFS is the best,
> why do the desert racers continue to run live axles on their 36" travel
> rear suspensions? I'm a personal advocate of IFS all the way around,
> but this clinging to live axles on these off-roaders perplexes me.
> Anyone - please throw in their $0.02!
>
> Cale
> 98cc318sporty, no longer scarred
>
>
> NVMYDakota@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > In a message dated 12/9/99 11:24:00 AM Mountain Standard Time,
> > ZeNel1eac1@aol.com writes:
> >
> > > > These trucks can take a hill straight on at a 72%
> > > > grade, and are basically the 4 wheeler from hell. You want to
talk
> > about
> > >
> > > the
> > > >
> > > > better suspensions ... my vote is on the IFS.
> > > >
> > > > Aaron
> > > > USAF
> > >
> > > Yeah as long as the hill is 8 feet wide....
> > >
> > > >>Hummers.. HMVVs whatever you wanna call em
>



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