rear leaf bushing bind

[chicane67]

chican! what hype? leaf springs camber when one at a time is moved up or down period! that is no hype, Herb Adams was a suspension engineer and came up with a spherical bearing to deal with the problem, another fact , GW came out with their CAT% shacle the also deal withe the same problem (if only a 1/2 azzed solution), next a sway bar can follow the springs articulation as the sway bar end can slid in and out of the end bushing! as well as rotate, as far as Del-a-lum bushings they are nothing more than solid aluminium with a nylon sleeve ( oh sorry Derlyn ) one last thing and I'll get off my rant, if improperly designed leaf spring are the problem please design us a perfect leaf spring, after all you have been doing it for years!!

Please use 'spell check'. Learn it and live it.....whether or not your on a "rant".

I know who Herb Adams is. I have met him personally. I am also more than familiar with the spherical bearing design. But, there is more, to the "Hotchkis" rear suspension than your proposed bushing limitations. There is also, more to the design of a leaf spring and how it can be tuned around much of what you seem to think, are problems SO MAJOR.... that for some reason you think that what you have read is hammered into stone. This, is far from our reality today. That is what the "years" have taught me.....

I really dont understand your point. But, remind me which point is your again.... your original comments OR the comments that Mark provided, that are contradictory to your own ??

The sta-bar thing, I believe, has already been constructively discussed by both David and Mark, and how its use is and/or would not be required. Tortional loading of the independant leafs, in and of a multi leaf spring design, and the available tuning within this alone, negates any real requiremnt for a rear sta-bar alltogether.

As I previously stated, you can negate near 80% of related bushing bind by taking the angle out of the spring, forward to aft. Secondly, Mark did reiterate just how little suspension travel articulation, the cars use or how much it actually occurs. Like I said, if you were on groomed pavement on a track somewhere, running slicks, or had the ride height at about two feet in the air..... the load factors just might become a factor. But not on a street driven (non 4x) chassis..... you wont see near the loading that you would on a non street surface.

Most of our chassis, here in our little circle, have reduced ride heights that really limit the articulation window to make this, the "hype" it has been built up too with some of our younger or lesser informed audience. Nor does it require, an incessant "rant", without 'real' defining TECH.

David, no biggie. Some of us just need to take the blinders off.

Brian