Hi Brian,
I am planning to experiment a bit but I'm waiting until I have my summer tires fitted again, low corner stiffness of my winter tires masks a lot of the feel. In any case this experiment wont help me to understand why either setup behaves the way that it does. I don't know the...
Hi Greg, thanks for responding.
I have read your paragraph several times, but I don’t understand it. I agree with your toe in example, but disagree with your toe out example. I would rewrite your explanation like this:
Consider a car driving in a straight line. Push the front of the car to the...
I am interested in static toe settings and how they affect vehicle stability at higher speeds. I am trying to understand the explanation given by CHagen in this thread from 2014:
https://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=365967
Part of the explanation describes how the self aligning torque...
That was a quick reply, thanks.
I've sorted it now, I was trying to use a straight line on the top of the valve stem, putting a curved line here (in the plane of the lobe) solved it.
Thanks,
I'm in a similar situation. I have managed to create the joints but the simulation doesn't work as it should.
I have a valve running in a guide with a cylindrical joint. Revolute joint between the cam and head. Then I’ve used the slide curve joint linking a curve around the surface of the...