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Steering of driven wheels
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lugnet.technic
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Mon, 12 Mar 2001 13:34:04 GMT
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Dear all, I hope someone can help me. I am attempting a MOC of a Series II
Land-Rover with as much functionality as I can achieve and last night I
realised that the only set with steerable driven wheels is the 8880. I have
one and I could use the wheels from that but that would up the scale of the
model too far. Has anyone else tried to do this? Could they let me know how
they achieved it? (I may be wrong that there's no COTS model with full 4
wheel drive).
I have an idea but it is reliant on a universal joint just behind the wheel
which means the pivot point is 3 away from the wheel and this makes it
difficult to build the steering in (and makes the model too wide).
At the moment I am just discovering all the wonders of LUGNET and therefore
have still not got LDraw to work or I would try to render this.
On a related point this MOC will also require non-independent, leaf spring
suspension and I have resorted to using a shock absorber 6.5L at a very
shallow angle to match the profile of where the leaf spring would go. It
occurred to me that it could be possible to make a leaf spring from some
metal and then drill holes in it to enable it to be sandwiched between two
bricks. Is this sort of 'custom part manufacture' frowned upon and if not
has anyone attempted anything similar?
Psi
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Message has 6 Replies:
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| (...) IMHO life is too short to be worrying about such stuff - if it makes your model cooler then I say go for it. While I've yet to build anything as complex as a leaf spring, I have certainly done some less major modifications from time to time. (...) (23 years ago, 12-Mar-01, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) Ooo. This is difficult. I have tried to make a Land Rover to the scale of the 5571 wheels two times, but failed both times. The first time I wanted to build one with four wheel drive and no working suspension. I used bevel gears rather than (...) (23 years ago, 12-Mar-01, to lugnet.technic)
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| Well my man here's the deal, making a 4x4 sterring nuckle from scratch with out using the prepared solution from the auto chasis has always been tricky, the u-joint set up is the way to go, and trust me if you think that the scale problem is holding (...) (23 years ago, 12-Mar-01, to lugnet.technic)
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| You can get by with U-joints if you limit the travel of your suspension abit or are very careful about your pivot points. I'm not familiar with the suspension in the Land Rover, but I'd guess that it's got unequal length A-arms and that ussually (...) (23 years ago, 13-Mar-01, to lugnet.technic)
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| Hello, I recently tried different steering/driving concept for a moc I'm working on. A solid axle with steering/driving/suspension is easier (imho) to do than independant wheel suspension, since it requires less CV joints and the steering can use (...) (23 years ago, 13-Mar-01, to lugnet.technic)
| | | Re: Steering of driven wheels
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| (...) I tried doing this a year or so ago using several (2/wheel) universal joints; it worked pretty well but had some pretty bad limitations. The main problems with it were that it was way too bulky (24 studs wide) and also that the suspension and (...) (23 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.technic)
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