<VV> your version of Smitty's rebound strap/axle jacking story

[Bill Hubbell]

Well, I am so old that I appear to have forgotten what Smitty is referring to. The closest I can think of is when my son was in high school doing donuts in the HS parking lot with his '61 Corvair and rimmed a rear wheel, deflating it and then breaking the transmission. Of course, that was about 13 years ago. 

Bill

On Sep 19, 2011, at 9:03 PM, Wrsssatty at aol.com wrote:

> <Ask Bill Hubbell about it. He has a story to tell about it.>
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> O.K.  I'll bite.  I'm asking you, Bill.  Let's hear the story you have to tell about it.
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> ~Bill Stanley 
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> <Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:42:43 -0400
> From: "Smitty" <vairologist at cox.net>
> Subject: <VV> Axle Jacking
> To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
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> Smitty Says; I missed making a big point on axle jacking and rebound straps. Yes the axle drop angle on a 60-63 Corvair even with the proper shock installed is suficient to allow axle jacking. I have experienced that. Ask Bill Hubbell about it. He has a story to tell about it. This tendancy is reduced by the transverse spring when the control arm drops down to it. The rebound straps available were made to limit axle drop to even less than the shock would allow.
> More from experience; Think on this. You put rebound straps on the car and you go out to the autocross. You are really "getting it" with your new MIchlin tires on and into a hard turn. The outside wheel compresses. the body rolls, and all at once it jerks the inside wheel off the ground. BTDT and I took the straps back off. The first rule of inertia applies to suspensions as though it was writen for it. For everything you do to improve it there is an equal and opposite reaction. 
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