OT - truck axles

[gooddane66 at yahoo.com (Phil Boeye)]

Never thought about it.  But I would guess it has to
do more with torque minimizing.  That is, acting as
further reinforcement for securing the axle against
torque.

-RP

--- Greg Pallett <greg.rocco@gmail.com> wrote:

> As we all know, a Scirocco is a much lower car the
> what the rest of
> the world drives.  As such, it affords a great view
> of the rear axles
> of pick-up trucks.  I've noticed, that pretty
> consistently the shock
> absorbers are mounted on different sides of the axle
> - the left shock,
> at the bottom mounts to the rear of the axle, and
> the right shock (at
> the bottom) mounts infront of the axle.
> Any ideas?  Something to do with torque distribution
> perhaps?
> 
> Greg
> 
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