cantiliever setup 2:1

alright, just because im bored and wondering. When setting up a canti setup (tru canti) and you do say a 2:1 ratio lever, you set the long side to push on the frame right? and the shorter side on the bag/hydro side?

when building one, do you just have to have the actual lever to the correct ratio, or is there more to it than that? do the "push bars" have to be a certain ratio as well? To match the lever ratio? just trying to learn something new today.

i take it geometry wasn't your strongest subject it school lol. it you make the lift side the long side your lift would be 1:2 so if your bags stroke was 10" the effective travel would be 5", if its mounted to the shorter side it would be 2:1 so 10" would be 20". You should draw out these things on paper because you would look at it and say wow that was easy.


Push bars have no ratio they just attach the 2 components together there is no pivot point between the two end points.

i drew it out and figured it out right after i posted. cheap shots arent needed, advice is.

I don't really think it was meant to sound like a cheap shot. Drawing something out is probably the best advice there is! Especially when dealing with chassis work. Either way don't take the first line to heart. Everyone's a comedian on this site. It's just harder to sense the sarcasm when it's in writing. (hence the LOL)

Edited: 7/8/2007 4:41:04 PM by 72bumpside

well, i have drawn it out in 3d since i asked, and understand it now better. I just asked before thinking really.

matter of fact, I have my whole front end drawn up in 3d as far as the frame is concerned. just have to build it to find tune the details of the front "z" height.



also, here is the canti roughed in, but will be boxed fully, and run along side the frame rail down into the upper arm, through it, and mounting on the lower. Just not sure if I should use a normal "bar end" or a spherical. Any in site on that? I can make it so the spherical doesn't have much side to side play, but still gets the rotation it needs. Just wonder if it makes a difference as far as how smooth it all works once in order and going through its travel.



i have changed a few thing on the front suspension design wise, nothing as for critical measurements but the kick up was 4x4.25 in that pic, and i got it back down matching the 3x4 crossmember. should be working on it shortly. the reason the upper mounts arent on there yet is because i dont know where exactly they will end up, but i do know where they belong height wise.

i have been interested in this as well, but its all greek to me, and u can take cheap shots, i wasnt good in math...i played football and my teacher, which was also my coach passed me so i can play foot ball

i guess its harder to understand than it is to actual follow, if that makes sense. the only "math" involved is having the pivot point at whatever exact ratio you want from the center pivot.