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- Indiana-Missouri
Well, I finally have the new front axle positioned under the jeep, and awaiting an oracle
I began taking measurements, drawing and visulaizing and came to the realization that:
there is not much you can do in strategizing link mounting locations!
so i stopped drawing.
if theres one thing I learned from the past discussions on 4-link design, is that it is almost impossible on a jeep to get the PERFECT set-up, that everythig is a big compromise.....
If I was building a rockbuggy from scratch, it would make sense to "engineer" a link set-up on paper and in a model first, but on the xj, there are limited possibilities anyway, and I am almost forced into placing them in specific areas, plus or minus a few inches from where I am able to put them.....
Originally I wanted to do a double-triangulated set-up, where the lower pair would mount to the middle of the axle tube, and the upper pair would mount on the outsides of the tube and converge in the middle right under the front of the t-case....
the lowers i can do like that, but the uppers will be almost impossible to work around the driveshaft......
simply put, I've decided to stop drawing, stop "engineering" and just put links in about the only places they CAN go, and hope it works okay......
its the FINE TUNING of the placements that could be discussed, but otherwise, it is what it is.......
thats about all I have to say.....
I began taking measurements, drawing and visulaizing and came to the realization that:
there is not much you can do in strategizing link mounting locations!
so i stopped drawing.
if theres one thing I learned from the past discussions on 4-link design, is that it is almost impossible on a jeep to get the PERFECT set-up, that everythig is a big compromise.....
If I was building a rockbuggy from scratch, it would make sense to "engineer" a link set-up on paper and in a model first, but on the xj, there are limited possibilities anyway, and I am almost forced into placing them in specific areas, plus or minus a few inches from where I am able to put them.....
Originally I wanted to do a double-triangulated set-up, where the lower pair would mount to the middle of the axle tube, and the upper pair would mount on the outsides of the tube and converge in the middle right under the front of the t-case....
the lowers i can do like that, but the uppers will be almost impossible to work around the driveshaft......
simply put, I've decided to stop drawing, stop "engineering" and just put links in about the only places they CAN go, and hope it works okay......
its the FINE TUNING of the placements that could be discussed, but otherwise, it is what it is.......
thats about all I have to say.....