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Enigma

Enigma

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Well apparently I need some welding done before my next trip anywhere. I havent looked at the 40 since my last trip up Eagle. I just came home that night, thew a tarp over it and went to bed.
So while playing around with it today, bent down to air up my self deflating front tire, and....doh!
broken arm (2).webp
broken arm (4).webp
broken arm (5).webp
 
Jeez, these beasts fall apart even when they're in storage! Wait another year or two and you can sweep it up into the garbage bin....
 
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At least the weld didn't fail :D
GG
 
you guys suck:flipoff2:

Hey jeff do I spy an fj45 out of hibernation?
 
While deep in thought just now at work, so deep in fact that my screen saver had come on that features random pictures off my 'puter, one of my poser shots from that Eagle Ridge trip pops up.
I can plainly see the broken traction bar dangling away in it. I didnt take the pic's, otherwise I would have noticed it right away. So there goes my theory that I tore it loose while yarding that Blazer thru the bypass.
It's rather amazing it didnt catch any low flying objects the rest of the day.
 
what's that hanging thing on your Cruiser?

is it a sticker Holder?
we build our sticker holders a bit tougher
Trac Bar EBI.webp
 
sorry, I looked at it again
it's a plow for the wife's flower beds

I'd tell my wife to use shovel
 
Or go Overkill like me!
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I don't quite understand that design. It has that 4th pivot point at the shackle that would still let the axle move forward and wrap the springs?

http://www.deckersonline.com/services51832.html


Upon further review, I think it still does let the axle move forward, but not as much as it would with no bar, as the forces involved get spread out more.

Whereas the decker design, locates the axle fairly rigidly, and if that forward pivot point is not following the arc of the springs pretty damn close, somethings going to fail.
 
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Enigma said:
I don't quite understand that design. It has that 4th pivot point at the shackle that would still let the axle move forward and wrap the springs?

http://www.deckersonline.com/services51832.html


Upon further review, I think it still does let the axle move forward, but not as much as it would with no bar, as the forces involved get spread out more.

Whereas the decker design, locates the axle fairly rigidly, and if that forward pivot point is not following the arc of the springs pretty damn close, somethings going to fail.
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wow, look at those hand drawn pics. Draw them out in Cad properly, add an axle cross section with a perch of at least 6" long, stick a bar off the top like yours, cycle it on an arch that's more realistic to a leaf spring, and you can see why yours ripped itself off the frame.

or bring Crusier by, we'll flex it out and measure it in several positions.
 
spring wrap is up and down. not forward. The shackle alows for flex in the suspension
 
Well my spring wrap, or whatever you want to call it, is forward. Check out the grooves in my tires from where they cut on the fender. I was breaking spring packs on a pretty regular basis. Well, as regular as 17 plus years of not using it can be.
I used to have 40" ground hawgs on it, and you sit in in the drivers sit, lean out and watch the rear tire move forward and cut into the fender as you stomped on it. Now imagine that with smaller 35's.
That was right after the backyard hack job of a SOA that it was. It since has been tweaked a couple times to fix it 'more proper like', so it's not as bad as it used to be.
 
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