Watts Link

[ChrisS]

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Chris;

There are quite a few permutations of horizontal Watts links and a lot of them are shown on Aero's link above.

Simple Panhard bars properly installed work well also.

IT ALL DEPENDS on what your going to use the car for and what your level of prep is and what the car wants to see.

you might post what you want to do with the car....

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I have a panhard rod in the car now; it is a 1/2 elliptical track car. I welded a bracket to the axle housing near the spring pad and built a triangulated brace similar to Nial's that bolts to the stock fuel tank location. This works well but before I built it I was looking at Mumford / Watt’s / WOBB link setups and wondered what was best for a Spridget. I have no desire to reinvent the wheel which is why I asked the question.

 

[Deleted member 3577]

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It is as <font color="red">long</font> and <font color="red">horizontal </font>(statically) as possible.

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/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/iagree.gif Also, it should be located along the axle center-line.

IMHO....I don't believe there is enough suspension travel to warrant a Watts link in our small light cars.

Keep in mind that NO car I have ever set up has pushed....EVER.(except in the rain)
And that the car in my sig. has no sway bars on either end. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[DrEntropy]

The car in your sig weighs only slightly more than a large dog, too. It CAN'T develop body sway. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/jester.gif

 

[Taz]

Found a rear wishbone kit in the Summit catalog. I think I under stand what you are describing now. I was thinking the y part went to the Axel. Now I realize that the y goes to the chassis and the single mount goes to the rear-end.

Taz

 

[piman]

Hello all,

the wishbone or 'A' link sounds similar to what Colin Chapman used when he re-designed the MK 1 Ford Cortina rear suspension.

He removed the leaf springs, and substituted coil springs. The axle was located by two parallel trailing top links
and a trailing 'A' bottom link. Triumph used a similar layout some years later in their Dolomite Sedan and possibly TR7?

Another variation I have seen on leaf spring cars is to install trailing parallel arms to control axle vertical motion but with the spring connected to the axle by a link such that the spring only supports the car but has no axle location function. It could be useful for racing where the type of spring cannot be changed.

Alec

 

[Hap Waldrop]

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Found a rear wishbone kit in the Summit catalog. I think I under stand what you are describing now. I was thinking the y part went to the Axel. Now I realize that the y goes to the chassis and the single mount goes to the rear-end.

Taz

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Yes that's it, we have atleast two cars in our group of racers using this and it's simple and require very little sub-structure to mount it.

 

[aeronca65t]

Just found the wishbone device you guys were talking about in the Summit catalog.
Looks very interesting!

 

[Deleted member 3577]

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The car in your sig weighs only slightly more than a large dog, too. It CAN'T develop body sway. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/jester.gif

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At 2,500#.....This one can /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif