[fluidfloyd]

For you guys that really want to work out the laws of physics in rear suspension systems, here is a neat little calculator I ran across a while back. This program was written for guys designing off road or rock climbing systems but the design math is the same. You will see a lot of useful help in the fact that you can vary 4 link tube lenght, diameter, wall thickness and material choice. It will show you pinion angle change as you bump the axle height. I have played with it several times a while back and it seems to be pretty good. I guess I need to work with it a bit more in my next project. I usually use another software package that is more suited for our application so maybe I'll run the same numbers on both and get a comparison. Once you download it, you don't have to be online and that makes it very handy. Hope you find it useful.

George

http://mysite.verizon.net/triaged/files/4BarLinkV3.1d.zip

[Chris@whiterhino]

I use this on a daily basis. Great took and since I build rock crawlers I get to play with it a bunch =)