Rob:
Let me try explain this with an analogy. Envision your rear suspension
assembly as a lever with a your tire at one end, the inner bracket at the
other end and the outer bracket in between but much closer to the end with
the tire. When you change your inner bracket only, your pivot point on the
lever is at the outer bracket. A significant change in vertical position at
the inner bracket will result in a proportional but much smaller vertical
change in position at the tire. On the other hand, when you change the
outer bracket only, your pivot point is now at the other end of the lever at
the inner bracket. A change in vertical position now at the outer bracket
will result in a proportional but magnified change in vertical position at
your tire. That's why the changing the outer bracket alone has a more
noticeable effect on ride height.
I apologize for this overly simple analogy. I couldn't think of another way
to explain this without a diagram.
Hope this helps,
Brian Lanoway
73 TR6 CF6985U
Winnipeg, Canada
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Christopher [mailto:robc@cisco.com]
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 3:01 PM
To: Lanoway, Brian
Cc: 'Triumphs Digest'
Subject: Re: TR-6 and Negative Camber - data
correction (very long)
Brian,
I'm confused, I thought it would have been changing the
inner bracket would
change the ride height. You say changing the outer one will
affect the ride
height?
Rob
74.5 TR6 CF28217UO
Ottawa, ON
"Lanoway, Brian" wrote:
> I found that it's best to change only one bracket per
trailing arm at a
> time. If you want to leave the ride height alone, change
the inner
> bracket. If you want to raise (or lower) the ride height
while changing
> the camber angle, change the outer one. To use the
table, figure out
> which bracket you're going to leave as is and then find
the next
> combination that allows you to do this while achieving
the approximate
> camber angle change desired.
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