LCA pivot shaft with coilovers
He made one set and never heard from him again. Before my Duster was wrecked my son was pulling it in to install a k member we lightened and were working on installing a Cage bearings and a Torington bearings in place of a bushing with a fastener. to hold the a arm on.
Using a factory set up the torsion bar does not hold the arm in place it is the factory rubber un-ripped bushing. Once it rips it moves front to back the same as the poly bushing allows it to when they are installed. He was doing it to secure the arm and let the suspension work with less resistance. He had the coil over design done by milling off the complete torsion bar socket, Boring and applying the system mentioned above.
I wanted to keep the bar so it could be applied to cars without modifying the shock tower and using the torsion bars.
Heim ends were being used for strut rods and the upper arms. This will really hold the suspension more secure and faster lift on a race car. But would cause greater road feel in the car on the street with no cushion. Some of the after market struts with swivels we've seen would move up and down but did not allow enough twist for suspension movement. The bar has to turn . not only move up and down. If you look at the pictures you can see the Heims are turned allowing movement tin the other direction.
Here is the K member and struts. he never got to finish the lower arms. The lowers were not finished but will be when we start on the new Duster . The cage bearing was holding side movement . The Torington bearing was holding front to back. It was a very simple design to apply to coil overs but he was working on using it with the T-bars. We never got to install it. I will post them after we use them.
We know there are complete suspension out there where coil overs are being used. We wanted to make them to use with factory parts replacing rubber that rips or poly that are absolutely worthless. he was using all factory parts for guys to install them on there cars without major mods. The struts below are OEM with Heim joints threaded right on the OEM rods
He made one set and never heard from him again. Before my Duster was wrecked my son was pulling it in to install a k member we lightened and were working on installing a Cage bearings and a Torington bearings in place of a bushing with a fastener. to hold the a arm on.
Using a factory set up the torsion bar does not hold the arm in place it is the factory rubber un-ripped bushing. Once it rips it moves front to back the same as the poly bushing allows it to when they are installed. He was doing it to secure the arm and let the suspension work with less resistance. He had the coil over design done by milling off the complete torsion bar socket, Boring and applying the system mentioned above.
I wanted to keep the bar so it could be applied to cars without modifying the shock tower and using the torsion bars.
Heim ends were being used for strut rods and the upper arms. This will really hold the suspension more secure and faster lift on a race car. But would cause greater road feel in the car on the street with no cushion. Some of the after market struts with swivels we've seen would move up and down but did not allow enough twist for suspension movement. The bar has to turn . not only move up and down. If you look at the pictures you can see the Heims are turned allowing movement tin the other direction.
Here is the K member and struts. he never got to finish the lower arms. The lowers were not finished but will be when we start on the new Duster . The cage bearing was holding side movement . The Torington bearing was holding front to back. It was a very simple design to apply to coil overs but he was working on using it with the T-bars. We never got to install it. I will post them after we use them.
We know there are complete suspension out there where coil overs are being used. We wanted to make them to use with factory parts replacing rubber that rips or poly that are absolutely worthless. he was using all factory parts for guys to install them on there cars without major mods. The struts below are OEM with Heim joints threaded right on the OEM rods
