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Re: rear anti-roll bar

To: Sally or Dick Taylor <tr6taylor@webtv.net>
Subject: Re: rear anti-roll bar
From: "Kevin O'Connor" <oconnor@fuse.net>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 20:53:53 -0400
Wow, then I guess I should have been driving over potholes that are wide 
enough for both wheels.

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>From: tr6taylor@webtv.net (Sally or Dick Taylor)
>To: oconnor@fuse.net (Kevin D. O'Connor)
>Cc: william.mcintire@wright.edu (Bill McIntire), 6pack@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: rear anti-roll bar
>Date: Wed, Jun 14, 2000, 7:27 PM
>

> Kevin---A rear anti-roll bar only effects "ride comfort" when one of the
> rear wheels hits a severe bump. This is when the force of the bar acting
> on opposite wheel adds "spring" to the wheel that's trying to deflect.
> Ride comfort is not changed when both wheels act in concert, as when
> going over speed bumps, tar strips, or deep rain grooves added to
> pavement. It would be the same for an anti-roll bar on the front
> suspension.
>
> Dick T.
> '73
> 

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