| ride heighth strain on front suspension [message #161372] |
Fri, 24 February 2012 09:38  |
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I know this has been dicussed before about too high of heighth in rear will cause undue strain on front suspension particularly TB's and sockets during braking. The standard protocal as I understand is to set the bogie centers and the wheel hubs in alignment with each other. I yet to find this and can get the factory measurement at the hole in the frame. I had an experience years ago with a man I worked for in the 70s who had a Buick Electra (land yacht) with air shocks that he ran around with back end way up in the air. Florida had auto inspection at that time and he could not get his back brakes to hardly show anything on the brake tester but he would max out the front. After alot of repair and failing 2 more test I suggested putting the car back to normal ride heigth and it passed fine. This was with front disc and rear drums. This all leads to, would it make since to run the rear bogies a little lower than the rear hubs so as to make the braking inertia move in a lateral direction instead of a downward pressure on the front end which my story demonstrates when rear ends are to high on vehicles. I think someone also actually had some pressure figures when the rear end is to high. I run P225/75R16's on Alcoa rims. Sometimes I can take a long way around to get to a point so I thank you for your patience in reading this and some possible ideals or comments.
Thanks again
Skip
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