Re: [AMC-list] AMC/Jeep J-10 Five Speeds & other mods

[Wrambler <wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've only ever personally seen ONE of those Jeeps.
It freaked me out at the time as I did not even know they had built them!
Yeah, it was pretty much a forunner to Fords setup.
There was some "odd" things about it, but I can't remember specifics.

Mark Price
Morgantown, WV 26508
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrac II
"I realize that death is inevitable.
I just don't want to be around when it happens!"

----- "Frank Swygert" <farna@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: "Frank Swygert" <farna@xxxxxxx>
> To: amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Friday, June 4, 2010 7:46:45 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [AMC-list] AMC/Jeep J-10 Five Speeds & other mods
>
> It's like the later Ford "solid axle" IFS, where the axle is "broken"
> in the center. Late 50s and early 60s rear drive Mercedes IRS axles
> are done the same way. And of course the VW bug and early Corvair.
> There is no allowance for changing camber as the suspension travels
> (wheels stay perpendicular to the ends of the axles) , and travel is
> limited. For a street/light trail (rough road) truck the limited
> travel is fine. The few FSJs that got the IFS weren't used for off
> roading I'm sure.
> 
> ------------
> Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:02:11 -0500
> From: Peter Marano<pmarano@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> > >  Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 07:06:36 -0400
> > >  From: Frank Swygert<farna@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > >  Yeah, but the early Jeep and most of the Ford "IFS" suspensions
> aren't really IFS to me, they are "break axle" or "swing axle"
> designs. Camber doesn't change as the wheels go up and down, or rather
> it DOES change.
> >    
> Look more closely at the early Jeep IFS it is more sophisticated than
> you think. It is not like the Ford 'Twin I Beam'
> 
> 
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