Thread: Dislocation or Retention?

Originally Posted by modman

The bollocks are fine thanks bill
It's more the steel caps in 35 degree heat if you get the drift

(took me 5 min in google to work out Betty swollocks)

What do you think of a rear swaybar install?
Dc

Betty Swollocks is what's known as a Spoonerism. My poor Vietnamese wife has enough trouble with English, and I drive her up the wall when without thinking I occasionally talk in Spoonerisms.

How about something like X Eng disconnectable swaybar with a halfshaft and freewheel hub?
Bill.

Originally Posted by wagoo

Rick, I doubt that Jonnie joints would be successful in that application, in that whilst they swivel ok, the bolt cannot displace off centre from one side of the bush to the other like a rubber bushing can, and that is the only way that the radius arm principal can work. Incidently, at max articulation on my ramp, neither the RRC or the hybrids RA bushings twist like in your photos. They stay square in their mountings.Are you getting binding at the chassis ends to cause this? Eurathane bushings corroding to the RAs/chassis mounts perhaps?
After having a closer look at the hybrid, which doesn't have drilled bushings, and noticing how the metal of the RA that surrounds the bushing fouls on the top of the axle mounting, I think my previous calculation of 20'' of wheel travel was a bit optimistic.Unless this area of the mounting was clearanced and maybe reinforced, my revised calculation is 16'' of wheel travel and about 15 degrees of axle displacement relative to chassis.
Bill.

I agree Bill after looking at my own pics, that's why I posted them

Those shots were taken four years ago and the standard rubber bushes at the chassis end were pretty much welded to the pins and mounts. (and they were only about two years old)
I had to chisel them off and take to everything with the wire brush, it was a mess.

After those shots were taken I replaced all the front end bushes with PU ones and got pretty much exactly the same flex out of the front end, yet the PU bushes allow bugger all distortion at the diff end of things.

It was all pretty rough at the time and definitely not scientific, a mound of cracker dust and a fence post as a ramp is pretty rough, but I was scared I was going to bind up the front end too much with the PU bushes.