>>>I am waiting for someone to explain the term in layman's terms.<<<
Since I teach for a living I'll give it a try:
1. The purpose of the drop spindle is to lower the front end of the car.
2. To see for yourself how this works, remove one of your front wheels,
calipers and rotors. You will see a tapered stub axle that is sticking out
horizontally on the spindle.
3. A "dropped" spindle has the stub axle mounted higher on the spindle. It
is like when you put a hook on a picture to hang on the wall. Relative to
the nail on the wall remaining in the same spot, the higher you put the hook
on the picture, the lower the picture will hang. In the same way the higher
the stub axle is mounted on the spindle, the lower the car will sit.
As someone already indicated "dropped" is an interesting term. It is
derived from the fact that the car itself effectively "drops" closer to the
ground because the stub axle is moved higher on the spindle. That fact can
create confusion in understanding what a dropped spindle is.
4. Commonly people cut, soften or have shorter springs created to lower the
car. This causes the suspension (A-arms, steering rack arm attachment
points) to function in a less than ideal position.
5. Drop spindles leave the suspension in its original location, but still
lower the car.
6. The advantage of a dropped spindle is a lowered car without the
disadvantage of altered suspension geometry.
I can't explain it any simpler than that.
Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc James Small" <marcsmall@comcast.net>
To: "Dave Munroe" <dave@munroe.ca>; "Alpine List" <alpines@autox.team.net>;
"tigers" <tigers@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 9:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Drop Spindles
> At 10:07 AM 12/18/2009, Dave Munroe wrote:
>
> >Ask Santa for a couple of Tiger repair books, or check-out the
> >Tiger/Alpine
> >website tech sites, and learn some of the terminology. The broad strokes
> >of
> >car repair do have their own language, but it is easily and quickly
> learned,
> >especially by someone like you who is gifted with a good intellect but
> >hampered by, forgive me, an attitude. This knowledge is what brings the
> >group together, and allows us to explain our problems to each other, and
> >understand the solutions known to others who have a deep interest in
> >these
> >cars and are willing to share their knowledge.
>
>
> I suspect that I own more Sunbeam tech literature
> than most on the List. None discuss "drop
> spindles". I am waiting for someone to explain
> the term in layman's terms. So far, all we know
> is that they were offered on post-Tiger and
> post-Alpine Sunbeam and Hillman cars. Now, WHAT
> they are, no one has said, just that they were
> available late in the Sunbeam game.
>
> Marc
>
>
> msmall@aya.yale.edu
> Cha robh b`s fir gun ghr`s fir!
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