OT - truck axles

[sailingfc at dslextreme.com (sailingfc@dslextreme.com)]

It's called a staggered mounting.  It is to control axle wind up, both
during acceleration and braking.

-Dick-
78 Scirocco
Original Owner
95 Passat VR6
Second Owner


Greg Pallett
> As we all know, a Scirocco is a much lower car the what the rest of
> the world drives.  As such, it affords a great view of the rear axles
> of pick-up trucks.  I've noticed, that pretty consistently the shock
> absorbers are mounted on different sides of the axle - the left shock,
> at the bottom mounts to the rear of the axle, and the right shock (at
> the bottom) mounts infront of the axle.
> Any ideas?  Something to do with torque distribution perhaps?
>
> Greg
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