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Bert_Ackerman
Sep 04, 2019Explorer
Huntindog wrote:Bert Ackerman wrote:That is not a spring hanger. Is is the shackle. One end of a leaf spring needs to be free to move as the spring flexes. As the spring compresses, it lengthens. That is why it looks like that. With it being a single axle unit, there will be no sideways thrust on the spring attachments during turns.
We already have such a thing in the US but it has a small issue.
It's built on a garbage LCI frame. How long do you think it would take until those long spring hangers twist off if you took it true off roading? Then again you may not make it to the trail as you might twist them off hitting a pothole on the highway or turning out of the gas station LOL. Even if the suspension lasts a trip or two after the first time the staples will pull through the siding and it will start falling off.
Not a thing wrong with it. Good and solid, even if it is low tech.
Go see the Optometrist. It's not a slipper spring which went to the museum about 1940. It's a standard hanger welded with little penetration by a toddler at LCI, and a bolt with nylon bushing through the spring eye the same as the other end of the spring.
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