"Rear steer is important in any design of dirt car." Rayburn builds the swing-arm type of rear suspension. Those cars have multiple holes, allowing the angles of the control links to be altered to ...

"Rear steer is important in any design of dirt car." C.J. builds the swing arm-type of rear suspension that typically produces less rear steer than the four-bar cars. Today, we see a different ...

ABOVE: An early-1954 Triumph Thunderbird with rigid frame. BELOW: Partway through the 1954 model-year Triumph converted over to a swing-arm rear suspension setup, as seen on this ’54 T-Bird. The 1954 ...

When Ford designed the Fox chassis for 1979 and later, they did away with the previous Mustang rear suspension design ... the Watts link shock supports, swing arm mounts, and pivot mount to ...

This changes the instant center of the rear suspension and gives the trailing ... control arm attachment at the rear axle. The arm probably won't swing down until the front attachment point ...

Constant motion, heavy loads, and direct exposure to water and dirt flung off the rear tire mean those bearings have a rough life, and undue friction in these parts will inhibit suspension action ...

When Norton introduced the Model 7 shortly after World War 2, rigid frames were the norm. Swing arm rear suspension setups hadn’t yet been widely adopted, or even perfected. A stop-gap measure that ...

There are a multitude of methods that have been used to keep your wheels under control, with deeply confusing terms like Hotchkiss drive, Watt's link, swing axle, semi-trailing arm and De Dion ... we ...

Suntour's Swing Shock is a swing-arm suspension fork that is clean-looking enough to put on a fixed-gear bike, however fancy it might be. The fork comes in two parts. The alloy top section is ...