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RE: watts linkage
A little background info from Wikipedia...
Watts linkage
Panhard rod
The Saleen, Parnelli Jones Boss 302 replica Mustang has a Watts linkage rear suspension, so you might contact Saleen to see if the rear suspension mod is available for sale.
The Watt's linkage is an automotive rear suspension designed in the early twentieth century as an improvement over the Panhard rod (with which the Mustang is equiped) as a means of locating a rear beam axle of an automobile relative to the body and preventing relative movement side to side. Whereas the Panhard rod is pivoted at both axle and body forcing the axle to move in an arc, thus introducing a sideways component into the vertical movement of the axle, the Watt's linkage ensures pure vertical motion.
It consists of two almost symmetrically arranged long rods mounted one at each side of the chassis and running parallel to and behind the rear axle, where they attach to the ends of a short vertical bar whose center is mounted to the center of the axle and which is free to rotate in the plane at right angles to the automobile's longitudinal dimension. As in the Panhard rod, the sideways arms themselves are free to pivot vertically at either end. Thus, each sideways member acts as a shorter Panhard rod mounted to the center vertical member providing lateral location. In contrast to the Panhard rod's action, however, the sideways components of the motion of the two arms as they pivot around their outboard mountings cancel each other in their effect on the axle and are instead taken up by the center member's rotation about its axis.
It consists of two almost symmetrically arranged long rods mounted one at each side of the chassis and running parallel to and behind the rear axle, where they attach to the ends of a short vertical bar whose center is mounted to the center of the axle and which is free to rotate in the plane at right angles to the automobile's longitudinal dimension. As in the Panhard rod, the sideways arms themselves are free to pivot vertically at either end. Thus, each sideways member acts as a shorter Panhard rod mounted to the center vertical member providing lateral location. In contrast to the Panhard rod's action, however, the sideways components of the motion of the two arms as they pivot around their outboard mountings cancel each other in their effect on the axle and are instead taken up by the center member's rotation about its axis.
Panhard rod
The Saleen, Parnelli Jones Boss 302 replica Mustang has a Watts linkage rear suspension, so you might contact Saleen to see if the rear suspension mod is available for sale.
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RE: watts linkage
http://www.fays2.net/fays2_watts_link_11_.html
Thats a link I found for a watts linkage for the gt. If the O.D. of the 7.5 is the same as an 8.8, it should fit.
Thats a link I found for a watts linkage for the gt. If the O.D. of the 7.5 is the same as an 8.8, it should fit.
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