Newbies guide to adjustable endlinks
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Changing the OAL of the endlink has NO effect on the swaybar stiffness. Not sure where you came up with that. Kind of seems like you are mixup up endlinks and swaybars.
Shortening lever length on the swaybar makes it stiffer and lengthening it make it softer. There is no other way to adjust a swaybar (unless it's blade type, where the ends can be rotated).
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This part is correct.
Changing the OAL of the endlink has NO effect on the swaybar stiffness. Not sure where you came up with that. Kind of seems like you are mixup up endlinks and swaybars.
Shortening lever length on the swaybar makes it stiffer and lengthening it make it softer. There is no other way to adjust a swaybar (unless it's blade type, where the ends can be rotated).
John
Changing the OAL of the endlink has NO effect on the swaybar stiffness. Not sure where you came up with that. Kind of seems like you are mixup up endlinks and swaybars.
Shortening lever length on the swaybar makes it stiffer and lengthening it make it softer. There is no other way to adjust a swaybar (unless it's blade type, where the ends can be rotated).
John
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I will say it again. Length of the endlink has NO effect on the stiffness of the swaybar. It is simply there to transmit force.
If you shorten/lengthen the endlinks it only changes the starting position of the bar, not what is doing.
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The length doesn't significantly affect the amount of force the bar transfers from one side to the other. People adjust the length to remove preloading. The rest is pretty much nonsense. It is true that as you go through the range of motion of the suspension, the angle between the control arm and bar will change slightly, but it will not give the big changes in force that you described.
If you want to adjust how much load a bar applies, you move the mounting location, not the endlink length.
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