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Well I bent them out. Most of them snapped when I did it so leaving them there wasn't an option. I guess they weren't designed to be bent out?
Oh well. It does beg the question then - if they snapped what sort of good would they have been in stopping the sideways movement of the pack itself?
The remainer were angle grinded off leaving the bottom plate with rivot in place. Only option considering. The result?
Well, on road the ride was improved. Before, when a wheel went down a pot hole etc the whole front end used to bounce, as if it was really stiff. This may be due to something else of course but I can't think what. No doubt someone will tell me! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img] ) Now the axles seem more 'live' and are responding well but without bouncing the front around. It feels like the shockies are doing their thing if you know what I mean. It just feels better. Cornering hasn't changed. There's no increased body roll at all. At intervals I have been havign a look underneath to check them but they haven't moved an inch and I don't really expect them too.
I haven't been able to try it out off road yet to test the articulation aspect but there's nothing to suggest that it will be worse - should be better if anything given that the article was based around off roading. And if this bloke in the article was extreme off roading I sure he would have mentioned something about sideways movment, which he didn't.
Having spoken to a couple of people about it they do not believe - and I agree with them - that sideways movement of the leaves is an issue. I'd be very surprised to see the leaves moving sideways under normal driving conditions or even off road. They're clamped well at the centre. I believe the clamps are there to hold their vertical movement - the thing I don't want - not to inhibit their sideways movements.
I was talking to my Dad (who knows a lot about earth moving equipment etc) and he said that on large trucks etc that are loaded up, the spring packs compress so much that the clamps rattle and are loose. If that's the case, they can't be doing too much to stop sideways movment can they?
Well there you go. Wayne's big experiment!! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]
If I do see movement in the future all is not lost. I can buy some u-bolts and put them back on or weld some new clamps on. No major deal.
For me - I'm happy with the result as it's stopped the 88" bouncing over every small hole in the road which was annoying. I use her almost everyday on the tarmac so daliy driving is a lot more enjoyable now.
On another point - I've had this really annoying rattle coming from the left hand side bulkhead area. Took me ages to track it down but I found the damn thing today! It was the mech that stops the door from opening right up. It runs inside a tube and has a friction rubber that slides up and down. Well that was loose. Not now!
Cheers!
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8O Hey, I have a rattle like that on the passanger side. Must check that door mechanism.
Sounds like some interesting results. You should have run it up a ramp to see what articulation you got before you changed it. Somebody els may be able to do it with theirs to tell you how it went, and you could compare it.
If it makes that much differnce, whay have the clamps there at all. Is it all a conspiracy to make landys uncomfortable 8O
But seriously, keep us posted how the springs go [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]
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Nothing ventured nothing gained :? Glad you had a good result What was the old saying ? "when men are contented there is no advancment" I think 8O
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Hi,
Very, very interesting topic for me !
But what about legal aspect ? Do you think is that allowed by law to practically cut those clamps ?
I am very interested, as I am not ready yet to spend more than $1000 for parabs, but my extra heavy duty leafs make me : :cry:
adam
stage one 84
