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Can someone point me toward some good info on 4 link or ladder bar conversions?

Also, anyone used one of those aftermarket columns like from ididit or flaming river?

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Check this out Dennis. I got it from Pirate4x4.com If this is not what you need you will find it there.

My friend has used a couple Ididit columns and IMO they are worth the $$. The chrome ones are really sharp.





[/quote]4 Link Calculator
Edit 12/4/2004
Version 3.0 is posted.

Top new features:
-Travel Worksheet that finds the geometry at bump/droop
-Calculates sprung mass CG and "anti-squat CG" (vehicle CG - rear axle CG)
-Fixed errors when bars are parall (all that is required now is one set of bars to be non-parallel in top view)
-Made the material spec's customizeable (you can add to the list if you want)
-Added a text file that explaines some of the spreadsheet.
-More color coding
-Moved all the calc's to another page to make room for the drawing on the main page.
-Saved it is an Excel 5.0/97 file so people with old software can use it (doing so made the file HUGE so you might want to save it as the newer version if you have it).
-Name changed to be more "proper"

http://home.earthlink.net/~triaged/...BarLinkV3.0.zip

Edit 1/10/2004
I just finished V 2.0. This one draws a picture of your suspension for you. As always if you want to screw with it there is no password to the protection...it is just there to keep you from screwing it up if you don't know what you are doing. I added some more input cells but haven't done anything with them yet...mostly I wanted to draw tires in the top view and position the CG but it is starting to look clutered anyway.
http://home.earthlink.net/~triaged/...ulatorV2.0a.zip
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Just uploaded V1.5. Greg72 from CK5 has helped me get it looking alot better with everything layed out in a more fluent manner. He also added some pull down menues for the link materials. If you click on the cell a little down arrow will pop up next to it. Just click on the down arrow and you will be able to pick from a list of choices. I also added an extra sheet with the coordinate system on it for referance.

http://home.earthlink.net/~triaged/...culatorV1.5.xls ?[/quote]

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i can't get the links to work... any ideas?

nope just takes me to an earthlink page that says "page not found"...

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It looks like the "..." in the link is replacing some missing part of the file name. I tracked down the original thread over at pirate and the text you see is not the actual link. These should work:

http://home.earthlink.net/~triaged/File ... nkV3.0.zip

http://home.earthlink.net/~triaged/File ... rV2.0a.zip

http://home.earthlink.net/~triaged/File ... orV1.5.xls


Looks like the first link is the current version. Here is the pirate thread with quite a bit of discussion on this little gem:
http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthre ... Calculator

800xl, thanks for the assist. btw, i have that lens whenever you are ready

Thanks guys!

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