Yea, IMHO if you'r running a truck like that look for other ways to loose weight.. That's just me.
i already lost weight in those areas. The bars will be ran from under the axle to about the rear of the cab. so 6-7 ft
Yea, IMHO if you'r running a truck like that look for other ways to loose weight.. That's just me.
2" 7005 aluminum links held up under a 5000lbs 450hp rock crawler, with some massive gear reduction and sticky tires, I think they will be fine as traction bars.
Do you mean 7075?
Braking is nothing cause of wieght transfer...either way...tension is even better....ad they will be plenty strong. I break 15k joints with my 1.5 inch sch 10 sa 53 eb pipe.
Tell me the sectio, material, and length and I will tell you how much force to break then....or better yet if you include your tire dia and final gearing....the torque your engine would have to make.
OK, in a street app, maybe OK.
Not for sledpulling! I have yet to see it for myself, but some people claim to see flex in my 2" square x 1/4" wall tubes...and the section modulus and modulus of elasticity are FAR higher in my setup....so if mine are "borderline," then the aluminum won't even be close, not by a long shot.
Cquestad....compressive stresses are fine but you are totally glossing over the slender column buckling mode. If you know those calcs then it should be obvious.
This. we are not considering ideal cases here.
Either way, why not ditch the leaves and add a triangluated 4-link with coilovers????
They are slender...
I will get back with hard numbers...paying taxes right now.
Spinning tires in dirt does not load a truck anymore than hooking up slicks on a track.
That arguement is pointless...I will cave and say they are both hard on axles.
My daily driver is not exactley typical...1000 hp on 37x13.5's. A 70 would not live long for that application either.
If it buckled enough to be visible...a slender element is already "almost colasped".
I will run some calcs manana...
Like I said before....I can break 15k joints (rated in tension...only god knows how strong they are in compression) with measly 1.5 inch sch 10 sa-53 pipe...I think 2 in aluminum will be fine with better joints...or less than 1000 hp.
i should have paid more attention in algerbra... and maybe english lol
Yes...and actually used Enercalc to crunch those really quick...
36 ksi yield and 29000 ksi E for SA-53
35 ksi yield and 10000 ksi E for 6061
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