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Some notes about my Panhard Rod and Mountings
Adjust all sizes to suit your own chassis and requirements.
I used 7/16 inch Rod ends as I thought they were a good balance between size and strength.
By keeping the rod close to diff and parallel with axle you reduce loading and by setting the effect as neutrally as possible at ride height, the deflection of the axle at upper and lower extremes will be reduced.
As diagram 2 shows, the adjustable rod was made by welding top-hat section threaded inserts into the steel tube and then grinding smooth - this keeps the size of rod end smaller and saves having to tap the tube.
Then fit rod ends and lock nuts.
By having a riight-hand thread at one end and a left-hand thread at the other the rod can be adjusted in situ, by undoing the locknuts and turning the tube one way or the other causing the rod to lengthen or shorten, without having to undo the rod end mountings.
If any of the parts are difficult to obtain locally to yourselves, I got all of the parts from Rally Design.
Tel.:01795 531871
or www.raldes.co.uk
If you have any questions or comments, feel free to email me.
The diagrams
The diagram on the left shows my adjustable Panhard Mounting Tower.
On the right is the Panhard Rod and Mountings.
Click on either diagram to see a larger version.
I've also included a zipped, 300 dpi .tiff format file for each diagram, which is more suitable for printing. Each zip file is less than 100kb so will only take a few seconds to download.
You will however need to be able to unzip them, if you do not have a program to do this Winzip is available from here.
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