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Re: Steering of driven wheels
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lugnet.technic
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Wed, 14 Mar 2001 23:06:27 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Jason S. Mantor writes:
> 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
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 solid.
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.
Hmm, I'm coming round to this as you will see from my reply to Olivier.
> 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 : )
I'm planning to use some spring steel that I know I have somewhere. After
playing about with the thing tonight I have realised I am going to need to
practically build the whole thing before I know how long to make them so it
may be a while until I get to this.
> -Xanthra47
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> PS. Please post pics somewhere !
Wilco.
Thanks for your help.
Psi
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 13-Mar-01, to lugnet.technic)
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