Strange front suspension design...

Take a look at this. Ever seen one with split bones and parallel leaves? Wonder what the reasoning was behind this..







Also, why did racers paint one half of the rims a different color? Was there a reason, or was it just a fad?

Brian

 

those ain't split bones, they're traction bars

 

Painting the wheel half one color half another helps tell if it is turning and how fast.

I'm going to guess that it had to do with identifying wheelspin.

 

No reasoning behind that at all. And absolutely no research as to proper suspension design; proper component selection; etc., etc.

Looks to be a Ford car axle with parallel leaf springs and no proper spring pads. So, to avoid the axle wrapping in the 'U' bolts, he put the old radius rods onto the spring anchors. Then he added the oh-so-chromey shocks, and placed them dead upright so they will bottom before the axle does (not even a stupid reason for this, it's just bad design, period). Luckily, it looks like the leaves are too much for the truck, so the axle won't actually move.

Typical seventies build.

Cosmo

 

It was still attached to the axle when he put it in and decided to leave it there...????

The cross steer looks dangerous enuff to me...

R-

 

My guess it's a 42-47 Ford pickup chassis, which had parallel leaf springs. Then someone put in an earlier axle that had the split wishbones attached and just left 'em on there.

 

I don't quite understand.....it isn't THAT hard to do correctly.

 

If your going to have a wishbone on a solid axle with parallel leaves you have to do shackles on both ends of the spring to keep the suspension from binding during travel.

Frank

 

The half painted rims were for detecting wheel spin off the line. Some of the first to use it were the Super\stock and higher stock class cars that had way more motor than the 7-8 inch slicks could handle.

Frank

 

If you think that setup is weird check this one out. Looks way wrong to me

 

Does that suspension even articulate? With parallel leaf springs, the axle hasta have a small amount of fore/aft movement as the spring compresses. (The spring gets flatter, and the distance from front eye to rear eye increases.) The bones would prevent the lengthening of the spring, causing it not to work. Something's gonna break, sooner or later!

 

NOW THAT IS VERY RAT~ROD~A~RIFFIC !!!!!!!!!!

Who dreams up this Garbage ?

 

Nice grill.

And lots of room for the Tie Rod on back where it belongs.

 

Brings new meaning to the term "Suicide Perch"