Fury Chassis setup 'Wandering'

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Re: Fury Chassis setup 'Wandering'

Postby pigeondave » Wed Nov 28, 2018 2:59 pm

They're not supposed to be vertical. Its like a cheap version of rising rate suspension.

or do you mean when viewed from the side, not vertical?

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Re: Fury Chassis setup 'Wandering'

Postby jeffw » Wed Nov 28, 2018 4:39 pm

I was wondering that, needs a photo

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Re: Fury Chassis setup 'Wandering'

Postby Tony C » Wed Nov 28, 2018 8:14 pm

pigeondave wrote:They're not supposed to be vertical. Its like a cheap version of rising rate suspension.

or do you mean when viewed from the side, not vertical?


When viewed from the side, with the shocks unbolted from the top rockers the top of the shocks was not centred on the fixing into the rockers, they were approx 10mm rearwards, so shortening the rocker tubes and spacing them rearwards to improve the castor should allow them to sit vertical. It seemed that the top of the shocks were being pulled forward previously, can't of helped free movement of the shocks?
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Re: Fury Chassis setup 'Wandering'

Postby pigeondave » Thu Nov 29, 2018 9:38 am

Tony C wrote:When viewed from the side, with the shocks unbolted from the top rockers the top of the shocks was not centred on the fixing into the rockers, they were approx 10mm rearwards, so shortening the rocker tubes and spacing them rearwards to improve the castor should allow them to sit vertical. It seemed that the top of the shocks were being pulled forward previously, can't of helped free movement of the shocks?


Yes it'll help.
The shocks with the rubber bushes are thicker than the ones with spherical bearings.
If i were to do it all again I'd have gone for the spherical bearing protech shocks and shimmed the shock in the chassis mounting to get them vertical.

As it is, I think i got about 5mm of play with the rubber bush type.

Fingers crossed for some dry weather over Christmas so maybe you can see if you've solved your issue?

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Re: Fury Chassis setup 'Wandering'

Postby jeffw » Thu Nov 29, 2018 2:19 pm

Spherical bearings/Rose joints need high miss-alignment spacers machined to fit and centralise the shock in mounts.

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Re: Fury Chassis setup 'Wandering'

Postby peter030371 » Thu Nov 29, 2018 2:21 pm

jeffw wrote:Spherical bearings/Rose joints need high miss-alignment spacers machined to fit and centralise the shock in mounts.

That's what i did on my Striker and that works OK :D
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Re: Fury Chassis setup 'Wandering'

Postby pigeondave » Fri Nov 30, 2018 12:46 am

jeffw wrote:Spherical bearings/Rose joints need high miss-alignment spacers machined to fit and centralise the shock in mounts.


Yes and no.

You could space with washers (small washers), as you are not looking for the spherical bearing to move the shock in that plane.
The reason for using them is that they are thinner overall at the connection.

Where they talk about the rod end body contacting the bracket in the video below. This isn't a issue for the suspension because it doesnt move in that plane

https://youtu.be/VYy28AvsNXE?t=30

Most of the time, rod ends are not used correctly anyway.
But, I did use high misalignment washers for the rod ends on the front lower wishbones. Its a race item for fury sportscars with rod ends

Edit: (after a sleep) Basically we're not looking for articulation of the spherical bearings (in this case)

Someone agree with me

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Re: Fury Chassis setup 'Wandering'

Postby jeffw » Fri Nov 30, 2018 3:19 pm

I certainly didn't (and wouldn't) use washers on a shock rose-joint.

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Re: Fury Chassis setup 'Wandering'

Postby Tony C » Fri Nov 30, 2018 10:52 pm

Shiny new ferrules and bushes arrived today courtesy of Steve, it'll all be going back together tomorrow :D
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