Re: [Amc-list] A front suspension idea!

["Armand Eshleman" <aje1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom,

Is this a factory trunnion front end??
http://wps.com/AMC/Front-suspension/images/front-susp-assy-on-car2.jpg>
Sorry to appear stupid but I've never seen a trunnion car........not many
AMCs around here.
thanks,
Armand



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Jennings" <tomj@xxxxxxx>
To: "AMC/Rambler owners, drivers and fans." <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 8:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Amc-list] A front suspension idea!


> -- John Elle <johnelle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > O.K., guys,
> >
> > Take a look at the following URL.
> >
> > http://www.classicnova.com/product.asp?specific=1555
>
> > WhadaUthink? Any Takers.
>
> Oh I think you could fab up an A-arm that would replace the AMC
> arm-plus-strut but what's the gain? In fact, 40 years later, AMC lower arm
> systems aren't falling off. The only problem -- serious enough -- is the
> TOTAL CRAP QUALITY of replacement strut bushings, and urethane seems to
fix
> that. When you get good ones, it works great!
>
> The current AMC scheme more or less has the geometry of a lower A-arm,
> except the rearmost pivot twists the single arm.
>
>
> <http://wps.com/AMC/Front-suspension/images/front-susp-assy-on-car2.jpg>
>
> The most serious problem is that the strut pivot point is outward from the
> lower arm inner pivot. You can see it somewhat in the photo above; the
> inner arm bushing is waaay back in the x-member, and the strut bushing is
> right under the frame rail. To make a real A-arm it would need to move
that
> inward, in the same longitudinal position as the inner bushing. The strut
> bushing let them get away with that error.
>
> You might end up with a rear arm half that reached back, around and above
> the frame rail to meet a pivot point, but it might be where the exhaust
> wants to live or something.
>
> Oh yeah, there's no place forward of the engine x-member to put suspension
> guts, so it's gotta go behind. Since it bears
crash-into-shopping-mall-curb
> it's gotta be strong -- the strut system certainly is that.
>
> I don't think it's broke enough to fix. It's unaesthetic I admit, but then
> again -- it lasts half a century on the road, how bad can it really be?
>
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