Land vehicles – Wheeled – Running gear
Patent
1979-04-09
1985-04-09
Song, Robert R.
Land vehicles
Wheeled
Running gear
B62D 1700
Patent
active
045097720
ABSTRACT:
A one-piece sleeve fitted within an aperture of a top arm of a spindle. The sleeve has an aperture therethrough angled with respect to the central axis of the sleeve. The angled aperture is constructed to receive a tapered ball stud integral with a ball mounted within a control arm. The ball stud extends through the aperture with the fastener threaded thereon to abut the sleeve and to draw into the tapered aperture a tapered section of the stud to expand the sleeve and frictionally lock the sleeve within its mounting aperture in the top arm of the spindle and the stud within the angled aperture. The sleeve when unlocked, can be rotated to adjust the camber, or pneumatic trail of the wheel assembly.
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Dickerson Carroll D.
Drotar Frederick L.
Makowski Lawrence A.
Wotton David R.
Drouillard Jerome R.
Ford Motor Company
May Roger L.
Song Robert R.
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