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dislocation does it help !!!!!!
Thrasher:
I didn't say they were a waste of time :-)
I said : "Forgive me I've being stupid here, but the whole idea of fitting a cone is to GUIDE THE SPRING back into position after you have caused it pop out of it's mounting."
The best test would be to get 1 of each vehicle to drive over a cross axle that would stop a vehicle without a centre difflock - then drive each over and see how they react. The newer vehicles will do the cross axle in different way to the older ones - by merit of their monocoque design....
Mace:
--- Quote from: "Mace" --- But simply (not your words) disregarding cones as a waste of time is incorrect.
--- End quote ---
as I said Neil...not your words :-)
muddyweb:
Forget the cones... as I have said before, they make no difference to the suspension travel.
The question was "Does dislocation help ?", and that is a wholly more complex discussion.
Thrasher:
I think I've made my opinion of dislocating suspension known.
Although, to be fair, if your garage was at the top of an RTI Ramp it might be worth it :(vamp):
datalas:
well, as was painfully pointed out to me, the silly things are "relocation" cones not "dislocation" cones, make that simple change in name and things become clearer :)
As for the concept of dislocating suspension, well most of the places you run out of traction in this country are because of being up to your diffpan in clag of (in most ARC events) a lack of turning circle, how having it's bottom fall off going over bumps in these cases would help is open for discussion.
If you're rock crawling, or doing something equally peculiar then a forced articulation system can probably help, but I've seen around about *no* cases in this country where it would assist, especially not in traditional trials. Learning the inside and out of the vehicle, and (if ruling permits) investing in a set of lockers would seem a better option to me.
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