Whats going on here?

[troysladeck]

I was looking through my photos from KOH last year and I found this photo that I had forgotten about…


I forget what truck this what under but it has me completely baffled. The is the front suspension and has so many moving parts. Can anybody here make sense of this witchcraft??

 

[Turboyota]

Jesus Christ

 

[BATTEN]

Needs like 3 or 4 more shocks

 

[RothShocks]

The prep bill on this must be crazy, I wonder if you can feel a noticeable difference in ride quality or you just hit diminishing returns

 

[ChristianEwing]

Pretty cool honestly, it's definitely different. The horizontal air shock is being used for taming the axle wrap and you can adjust the pressure in the shock to fine-tune exactly how much force it needs to work against it trying to wrap. It also allows the truck to articulate and not bind up. Sometimes if traction bars, essentially whats going on here, are just tube with heims at each end that are not setup correctly it will bind up as the suspension articulates. I'm assuming this is something that spends time on rocks or trails which is an advantage. The vertical air shock is hooked to the sway bar in place of the linkage that goes from the arm down to the axle. Again, with it being an air shock, you can adjust the pressure inside of it to allow as much compliance in the sway as you'd like and let the vehicle float over chatter without rocking the truck side to side like a stiff sway bar would on a straight axle. The bypass being mounted on a link further away from the center line of the axle tube is just getting leverage on the shock to allow for a more plush ride

 

[MCJAKE]

It had to be a leaf spring only race class right? Cause there’s no way this was cheaper/better than a simple link setup. Just a bunch of left over parts maybe? Pretty cool tho.

 

[Giant Geoff]

Everything is going on there, everything!

 

[Brett_408]

Hittin the scante and grabbing a welder that's what's going on.

 

[Oh4Tahoe]

That limit strap mounting

 

[515FAB]

Are they using that front Fox as a adjustable sway bar end?

 

[36Fan]

Complete mess!

 

[bullnerd]

You ever see that optical illusion pic of the steps that go back into themselves and you cant tell where they end?

That's what I see looking at the shackle on the far right.

It looks like that inner piece pivots, But also its held by those three small tubes? lol!

 

[bullnerd]

That limit strap mounting

Its double shear. Meaning, The bolts going to shear in two places.

 

[troysladeck]

You ever see that optical illusion pic of the steps that go back into themselves and you cant tell where they end?

That's what I see looking at the shackle on the far right.

It looks like that inner piece pivots, But also its held by those three small tubes? lol!

Thats exactly what has me tripped up! Looks like a shackle, but its hard mounted to the body

 

[bullnerd]

Thats exactly what has me tripped up! Looks like a shackle, but its hard mounted to the body

I'm guessing they are going for some type of Caltrac setup, But I cant picture that rear shackle setup.

 

[the bodj]

You ever see that optical illusion pic of the steps that go back into themselves and you cant tell where they end?

That's what I see looking at the shackle on the far right.

It looks like that inner piece pivots, But also its held by those three small tubes? lol!

It's not a shackle on the right side. Left is actually the front of the truck. Shock mounts on the antiwrap bar/link thing, and the left side of it (towards front of the truck) is a shackle. It'll let the axle move up and down but theoretically not twist. I think Fabien Florent has the same setup on the rear of his toyota pickup.

Edit: Looks like it was originally made so the right side pivots as well, and now uses the three smaller tubes to keep it from pivoting?

 

[sdecurti]

My hurt from going in a viscous cycle of how the "shackle"(???) works? is it hard mounted?

I want to ride in this truck....

 

[badlinesgoodtimes]

 

[MCJAKE]

Question for the shock experts out there. What’s the benefit to mounting the bypass like that, besides packaging? I get it, it’ll “soften” it up but, couldn’t you just tune it to do the same thing mounted straight off the axle? Is it just an old concept because shocks technology wasn’t there yet?

 

[84Prerunner]

Question for the shock experts out there. What’s the benefit to mounting the bypass like that, besides packaging? I get it, it’ll “soften” it up but, couldn’t you just tune it to do the same thing mounted straight off the axle? Is it just an old concept because shocks technology was there yet?

Shorter stroke shock getting more travel is one possibility. Guess it’s something to do with packaging or maybe just style points. Overall I like it