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General Category => Steering, Suspension, & Brakes => Topic started by: roverman on January 05, 2021, 12:56:04 PM

Title: How to get positive caster ?
Post by: roverman on January 05, 2021, 12:56:04 PM
VW Bug, king pin front suspension. I believe upper/lower control arms, are equal length, so no roll caster-gain. I suspect tilting whole suspension assembly, rearward at top, will generate static positive caster.   Anyone familiar with this suspension ?
                                                                                                         Thanks, Art.
Title: Re: How to get positive caster ?
Post by: BlownMGB-V8 on January 05, 2021, 05:34:14 PM
The arms were oriented so they pivot along the cross axis of the car and I believe they were all four the same length A torsion bar inside one of the two cross tubes handled the spring load and was adjusted with a center bolt for height. Caster was dependent on the angle of the brackets that the tubes were bolted to.

Jim