I can visualize 3, but not 4. Two for axle movement and one for steering
axis. This applies to a-arm type suspension I suspect.
Peter S
----- Original Message -----
From: Arthur H. Smith <arthurhsmith@compuserve.com>
To: triumphs <triumphs@autox.team.net>; SPITFIRES <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 1999 10:01 AM
Subject: cv vrs univ joints revisited
>
> Sorry to bomb both lists but I only paid a little attention to the CV/UNI
> thread. The other night I saw part of a Speedvision program and it was
> about the dessert racers mainly a 4x4 truck. At one point they had an
under
> hood camera showing the suspension working and it sure looked like each
> axle has 4 countum four CV joints. Two are at each end of the axle in a
> pairs rather than singles.
>
> My first thought was how can that work, but figuring that if a heavy duty
> spring was in each of the outer ones (wheel and differential connected
ones
> are outer, axle connected ones are the center two) pushing it into its
> housing and the ones connected to the axle in the normal way only during
> extreme suspension movement would the outer two come into play.
>
> My 2 p on subject.......
>
>
> The arthur >;-} :4 O:-)-}8<
> www.anedieco.com/tr.htm
> kit car aka 69 GT6
> 82 XJ6 Jaguar (Jennifer)
> boxy thing on wheels aka ford aerostar (boxy lady??? 8-} )
>
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