1946 chevy truck build.

[joedoh]

the unequal length is what allows the stability of pinion angle without fore/aft movement.

if you do what I said above, about mocking it up with paper, use pins as the pivots, you will easily answer these questions for yourself. in engineering we have a saying: "engineers will argue for an hour about something that could be tested in 5 minutes" mock it up with paper, you will be able to simulate longer bars, different attaching points, unequal bars, pinched bars, all of it. literally a 5 minute test. better than that, you will see it for yourself, way better than trying to interpret words on a screen

[dillonv2008]

[QUOTE=joedoh;8050799]the unequal length is what allows the stability of pinion angle without fore/aft movement.

if you do what I said above, about mocking it up with paper, use pins as the pivots, you will easily answer these questions for yourself. in engineering we have a saying: "engineers will argue for an hour about something that could be tested in 5 minutes" mock it up with paper, you will be able to simulate longer bars, different attaching points, unequal bars, pinched bars, all of it. literally a 5 minute test. better than that, you will see it for yourself, way better than trying to interpret words on a


True after your help with first part my pinion angle is perfect and everything so I Don't think I'm gonna confuse my self on this. I'll just angle the upper bars further out on axle and in on driveline tunnel. And bring in lower bars so I can run bar on bag. Switching upper bars angles so I can have room to center bags on bars.

[dillonv2008]

Originally Posted by joedoh

the unequal length is what allows the stability of pinion angle without fore/aft movement.

if you do what I said above, about mocking it up with paper, use pins as the pivots, you will easily answer these questions for yourself. in engineering we have a saying: "engineers will argue for an hour about something that could be tested in 5 minutes" mock it up with paper, you will be able to simulate longer bars, different attaching points, unequal bars, pinched bars, all of it. literally a 5 minute test. better than that, you will see it for yourself, way better than trying to interpret words on a screen

I did the experiment you said to try and with shorter bars on top does what I thought as goes up axle comes down a little.

but when bars where parallel it didn't seem like pinion angle changed at all??

[dillonv2008]

Originally Posted by dillonv2008

I did the experiment you said to try and with shorter bars on top does what I thought as goes up axle comes down a little.

but when bars where parallel it didn't seem like pinion angle changed at all??

ingnore this comment

[dillonv2008]

haven't been on here to post anything in awhile so heres some updates.
I have more parts ready to install/mock up but my brake pedal Is wrong one so waiting for new bracket to come in to move further in cab

[dillonv2008]

Originally Posted by joedoh

the unequal length is what allows the stability of pinion angle without fore/aft movement.

if you do what I said above, about mocking it up with paper, use pins as the pivots, you will easily answer these questions for yourself. in engineering we have a saying: "engineers will argue for an hour about something that could be tested in 5 minutes" mock it up with paper, you will be able to simulate longer bars, different attaching points, unequal bars, pinched bars, all of it. literally a 5 minute test. better than that, you will see it for yourself, way better than trying to interpret words on a screen

Here is the update on driveline tunnel I thought I had posted this already