suspension ?- rear lower stress bar?

[Larry" <rocco16v@netzero.com (Larry)]

yeah, Dan's right on this one.

larry
----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Bubb <jdbubb@ix.netcom.com>
To: Allyn <amalventano1@comcast.net>
Cc: brett cooke <vwscir88@hotmail.com>; <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 4:50 AM
Subject: Re: suspension ?- rear lower stress bar?


> Allyn wrote:
> >
> > anything that attaches to the moving part of the suspension is by
definition a sway bar.
>
>
> Really?? 30 years of reading about suspension and I didn't know this!
>
> I hate to be an ass, but this statement is so overly simplistic and does
> a great disservice to less knowledgeable people on the list.
>
> Actually, what Brett described is a stress bar. It's just different in
> that it doesn't brace the chassis, it braces one trailing arm to the
> other. They ARE cantilevered beams and they will deflect laterally under
> load. Whether this addition is a benefit or whether it induces unwanted
> deflections on its own is, perhaps, open to debate.
> It isn't a sway bar!
> Dan
>
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