Panhard Rod on a Leaf Spring Car

[High Plains Mopars]

There is the possibility of binding occuring within the motion difference bewtween leaf movement and panhard movement. If you are only moving an inch or two, you may never run in to this binding. However, it does occur in some applications because of the travel involved and physical location adn size of components. Some racing leaf manufacturers offer a pivot mount for use with leafs that utilize alternate locating devices to allow the leaf to pivot and avoid this bind. The upside to using a pivot is that if you have competing arcs with the locating device, then they will not bind. Downside is you loose the natural roll resistance provided be a leaf that is being twisted by body roll.



Good info on panhards is here, they also have a nice tech note on leaf springs too. http://www.afcoracing.com/tech_pages/panhard.shtml