Date:         Thu, 24 Jun 1999 00:59:23 -0400
Reply-To:     Pat Dooley <pdooley@GTE.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Pat Dooley <pdooley@GTE.NET>
Subject:      Re: SA HD Spring Rates
In-Reply-To:  <37710F70.2AA064DB@online.no>
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Huh?

What locates the spring perch?  Is it suspended in mid-air?  Or still
somehow attached to the lower control arm?

The fact that you call it a "shock" eliminates the possibility of it being a
strut.

The strut cartridge acts as the damper in a strut setup, and also as the
steering axis.  Is this the case with the syncro?

The spring - shock thing seems to indicate two separate entities.

Sorry for the jabber, I guess I'm just obsessed with nomenclature.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
> Of Per Lindgren
> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 12:47 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: SA HD Spring Rates
>
>
> Pat Dooley wrote:
>
> > I was always under the impression that the vanagon has upper and lower
> > control arms, not struts.
> > Unless you are referring to the strut bar which locates the
> lower control
> > arm.
>
> You're right, the Vanagon has upper and lower control arms, but on the
> Syncro, the lower spring mount is not on the lower control arm,
> but instead
> on a spring perch, making the shock and spring into a strut.
>
> PerL
> Bug, Bus 'n 'Back
>