the shock idea is a bit of overkill (ok, a lot ... LOL) but basically think of it as installing a rear axle housing under one of these swingarms with just a couple of the rectangular rubber leaf spring isolator pads between the spring perch and swingarm. just enough "give" to eat up the initial shock, vibration/harmonics and allow the axle to have a little roll. The travel would still be regulated by the original shocks/swingarm setup--no changes there. the links just serve to keep the axle travel in the vertical plane.
Correction to my post above, the deflection of this system (mainly from the bushings in the link ends--unless you heimed or went solid bushed) would give understeer, not oversteer in the corners.
The axle housing i picked up is from a 70s to 80s ez-go marathon electric. by the 80s, most of the rear housings went to a split case that you wouldn't want to deal with. Just figured you might want to give a go at something like this if you stumbled across one.
with the shocks, it would actually work more like the dual-spring shocks that have the short and tall coil split on the same shock body. in this instance as long as the axle's spring is stiffer than the swingarm's, it should work progressively with no noticeable transition.
Last edited by x-bird; 06-21-2012 at 07:40 AM.
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