Thread: Mysteries of the swivel

Originally Posted by discowhite

well if you doubt it works i can prove it to you!
i'll happily take them out again, let you drive the 90, then put them back in!

i really get the gripes when i get told something dosent work when 90% of the time the ones bagging it havent even tried it

the offer still stands!

I can't see any reason why it would help, but as long as you are happy.

IMHO, rotating the swivels is the best way to correct castor. Bending the radius arms can correct the castor, but affects the pinion angle, which often leads to driveshaft vibrations that require a double carden joint driveshaft to fix.

Originally Posted by Bush65

I can't see any reason why it would help, but as long as you are happy.

IMHO, rotating the swivels is the best way to correct castor. Bending the radius arms can correct the castor, but affects the pinion angle, which often leads to driveshaft vibrations that require a double carden joint driveshaft to fix.

But you guys dont get it do ya....

The diff pinion angle is WRONG at the best of times....

On a LR re-aligning the pinion close to a parallel plane reduces vibrations....

Originally Posted by tombraider

But you guys dont get it do ya....

The diff pinion angle is WRONG at the best of times....

On a LR re-aligning the pinion close to a parallel plane reduces
vibrations....

I would assume that you mean running the pinion as close to the same angle as your drive shaft, thus reducing the amount of load on the uni at any time. The optimun set up would be to have the pinion and drive shaft on the same plane, if you could.

Discowhite, spacing your radius arms, will not change your castor angle. A 10mm spacer on the horizontal plane will do jack to the castor angle. I milled a 15mm slot in my swivel housings to go from -3deg to + 6deg castor. The differance in steering was huge to say the least.

Regards Justin

Originally Posted by discowhite

or space the radius arm to chassis bush out 10mm.

did this on the weekend while fitting new poly bushes and oh my god my steering is back to normal!

cheers phil

Maybe fitting the new bushes fixed the steering, rather than lengthening the wheelbase?

No went to poly bushes instead of rubber

FOR Discowhite

wow, 6 1/2 years later!

a lot of work went into that drawing.......those things can't be made up in a matter of a few minutes you know.......