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Originally posted by mloy
Here's a question: How the heck do you bumpsteer a leaf spring chassis? You can't (obviously) take the spring off for freedom of movement to measure.....
I guess one could make a test spring out of mild steel and bolt it in place of the real spring but would the arc of the test spring follow the same path as the real spring?
--Mark
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There's no way to exactly duplicate the "arc" of the leaf spring but a fiberglass leaf might make it a lot easier to move through the wheel travel. You'd have to make a bolt-on eye for the outside end.
I've been fiddling with a drawing of an original suspension's profiles. It has way too much ackerman - maybe to compensate for the too-long rack causing toe-in. The rack should be moved forward about 1.5" to make the ackerman correct. I
estimate that the rack length is 19"- 20" between inner pivots, but that's subject to a real bump-steer check.
Obviously...