• Steel Soldiers now has a few new forums, read more about it at: New Munitions Forums!

  • Microsoft MSN, Live, Hotmail, Outlook email users may not be receiving emails. We are working to resolve this issue. Please add support@steelsoldiers.com to your trusted contacts.

Search results

  1. plym49

    Bobbed m35 with air bag suspension

    have you considered the possibility that you are bending and breaking parts because you have a healthy dose of interference motion? Of course the weak link in the chain is going to break. Streghtn those components, and something else will break: maybe something a lot more expensive (or...
  2. plym49

    Bobbed m35 with air bag suspension

    If you were able to set up a dial indicator on the various parts and cycle the suspension up and down - not an easy thing to pull off with big heavy truck parts - you'd be surprised at how many components were deflecting. If the geometry is set up to bind - aka interference motion - then...
  3. plym49

    Bobbed m35 with air bag suspension

    It is hardly best practice to have a double panhard bar (one each way). Doing so introduces interference motion. When the suspension cycles up and down, one or more of the following is happening: the frame rails themselves are being flexed outwards and inwards, the panhard bars are flexing...
  4. plym49

    Bobbed m35 with air bag suspension

    I am not sure what you mean by track bars. If you mean Panhard bars, using two - one pointing each way - will not work as all that just locks up the suspension (think a bridge truss). Or, did you mean trailing arms? (You still would need a Panhard bar.)
Top
AdBlock Detected

We get it, advertisements are annoying!

Sure, ad-blocking software does a great job at blocking ads, but it also blocks useful features of our website like our supporting vendors. Their ads help keep Steel Soldiers going. Please consider disabling your ad blockers for the site. Thanks!

I've Disabled AdBlock
No Thanks