I’m at a point of clarity finally on this stupid assed torque arm project. Too many compromises, too many uncertainties, too many risky choices.
The Crossmember, although now properly centered is still a concern..it’s too damn low for proper ground clearance. Now that I don’t need the room for the original design, there is several inches up I can move the thing. Right now at the height it is, it’s gonna scrape..It is exactly at the same height the exhaust clamp was that scraped everytime. I originally set this as my “ absolute no lower than” with the original design, and now that’s not needed.
So, now that I have completely been over that step multiple times, I know exactly how I want it.
The “ male part” of the main spar is a potential weak point. it’s bolted on to the end of the main spar. Its also welded, but in the end, it’s a “ lever” being held at the end, with maybe 500 ft lbs of torque continually applied trying to snap it off.
I’m going to get a much longer shaft, and cut a channel into the main spar so that I can weld the thing so there’ll be no break point on the front. I’ll also get a solid shaft.
The material I chose for the
panhard bar mount is too thin. Although I haven’t made that yet, I’ve decided to up the wall thickness of the entire mount to minimize any chance of flexing at either end. I don’t know if I’m being overly anal about that, since it was my plan to diagonally brace the thing to the actual rod end mount point...I don’t want to add a bunch of heavy duty sht back there if I don’t need to,...I just don’t want to have it fail and have to do it over, or worse, wreck because of it.