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<blockquote data-quote="patooyee" data-source="post: 514676" data-attributes="member: 483"><p>I second most everyone's comments so far. Make the panhard mounts beefy as ****. Mounting the top link directly over the dif is good because it stops the torque at its source instead of transmitting it through the housing first. Most 3 links I see like this have the top link going straight back to the chassis, not angled to the side / frame like you have. Part of me thinks that having it angled like you do could induce some odd body jacking since all the torque from the axle will now be transmitted at an angular vector instead of a straight line. I could be wrong though. I'm also fairly certain that having it angled like that will cause some bind or at least weird travel characteristics. That is because as the axle flexes that angled top link will be wanting to pull it one direction while the panhard will be wanting to pull it either in another direction or in the same direction at a different rate. I'm not nearly as knowledgeable on 3-links as 4-links though. I do know that it is possible to get your roll axis much higher up with a panhard bar than a 4-link though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="patooyee, post: 514676, member: 483"] I second most everyone's comments so far. Make the panhard mounts beefy as ****. Mounting the top link directly over the dif is good because it stops the torque at its source instead of transmitting it through the housing first. Most 3 links I see like this have the top link going straight back to the chassis, not angled to the side / frame like you have. Part of me thinks that having it angled like you do could induce some odd body jacking since all the torque from the axle will now be transmitted at an angular vector instead of a straight line. I could be wrong though. I'm also fairly certain that having it angled like that will cause some bind or at least weird travel characteristics. That is because as the axle flexes that angled top link will be wanting to pull it one direction while the panhard will be wanting to pull it either in another direction or in the same direction at a different rate. I'm not nearly as knowledgeable on 3-links as 4-links though. I do know that it is possible to get your roll axis much higher up with a panhard bar than a 4-link though. [/QUOTE]
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