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Re: Steering of driven wheels
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Tue, 13 Mar 2001 01:03:32 GMT
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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 requires a "plunging" joint of some kind. The 8880
is the only LEGO(R) set with plunging CV joints so you may be better off
using a large scale.
I'd love to see what you come up with for the leaf spring. I don't
believe that I've ever seen anyone try to use them in a LEGO(R) model
before. It should be educational for us all : )
-Xanthra47
PS. Please post pics somewhere !
"Simon Bennett" <simon.bennett@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:GA370s.BMq@lugnet.com...
> 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).
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> 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).
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> 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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| (...) Lost me here, sorry. Perhaps I had better do some reading up on automotive engineering first! My MOC is actually a rendition of a friend's 1962 Landy, so pretty low-auto-tech. It has leaf spring suspension on both axles and they are both (...) (24 years ago, 14-Mar-01, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Steering of driven wheels
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 12-Mar-01, to lugnet.technic)
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