Leading/trailing arm suspension

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Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

How can this possibly work?
the trailing arm cannot be connected to the leaves surely?


https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...017/03/559.jpg

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Can't see why that wouldn't work. Just using leaves instead of coils. You'd just need to make sure the leaves are rated so they actually flex and aren't rock solid all the time which would be pointless - and what a lot of people do when building trailers themselves. Not sure how much more effective it would be than a solid axle though apart from giving extra ground clearance between the wheels.

While I do agree Slunnie, Trailing arms were used on the front of Off Road buggies for many many years,, then someone built triangulated fronts , and now full A arm which are straight across, so the newer systems do handle the rough.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...017/03/556.jpg

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...017/03/557.jpg

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...017/03/558.jpg

with this front end you can see why the yanks like desert racing... ;)

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Originally Posted by Homestar

Can't see why that wouldn't work. Just using leaves instead of coils. You'd just need to make sure the leaves are rated so they actually flex and aren't rock solid all the time which would be pointless - and what a lot of people do when building trailers themselves.

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what i mean is, when the leaves flex the 2 arc distances would be different,,
drawing an arc from the mounts on the square tubing and one from the leaf end,,

The pivots look like they are set at different distances so I would assume the pivot point is where it's attached to the spring.

I am looking at this and typing this out while lying on an ER bed with a drip in my arm so not saying I couldn't be wrong.

long story which I'll save for another time.

I don't think my last post made much sense, but there looks like another hinge arrangement on the top of the spring that may be there to cope with that.