RE: Suspension [TANKS]

["Steve Tyng" <STyng-at-ACPTrust.com>]

Chris wrote:

 

> I hope it works well for you as I like the idea better than a torsion set up. It looks 

> a lot simpler (other than needing to use a router and such). 

 

The Christie suspension is the result of good old fashioned Yankee ingenuity (though the US Army never saw much in it at the time).  It took the Germans to invent the complex torsion bar suspension.

 

> it seems to be completely seals so no water should get through, into the tank.

Water can get through the hull bearings.  I could probably seal it well enough with the right size o-ring.  I wont bother though.  I don't plan on running through wet stuff again.  Been there, done that...

 

 

    Steve Tyng