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trailing arms

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Hello, and merry Christmas!

I have a Hawk 289 FIA with Jaguar IRS and wonder how You have mounted your trailing arms?

Please post or send me your pictures!

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Merry Christmas to you. I hope these pictures help you.

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Ah! The special disc finish again - and how clever - you've managed to treat them after installation!
Where do you get it, Clive?
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It's all down to natural flair and talent...connected to miserable damp Scottish weather! :roll:
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I can thoroughly recommend dehumidifiers - I've had one running in the workshop for the last 15 years, to excellent effect.
There are great ones about these days - I currently have an X-dry, which for under 200 quid is well worth it. Keeps the tools and spare blocks etc. dry, too. Copes with a 3-car garage.

http://www.dry-it-out.com/x-dry-xdry-dehumidifier
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Roger, my garage/workshop has so many holes and gaps in it there wouldn't be any point. It is probably big enough for six cars so would take a lot to keep dry. I've considered a Carcoon, but have decided to demolish it and rebuild the whole thing next year. One problem is that it is built with cement/asbestos sheeting. :(
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As the Jag axle is shortened in the Hawk application you normally do not use the trailing arms.
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clive wrote:Merry Christmas to you. I hope these pictures help you.
The Swedish SVA demads that I use trailing arms

Is there anyone out there who has any typ of trailing arms mounted on their IRS

Please post more pictures

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Seriously? They demand them?
That's going to be a problem. If you fit them to a Hawk, the shortened wishbones will require a much more acute angle of movement of the radius arms than the stock Jag arrangement. Gerry once produced some pictures of what can happen if you fit the radius arms, as I think some of the US kits used them. As they go up and down, they move through an arc which pulls the driveshaft/wishbone back and forth. Some cars have had the wishbone break as a result - not good.
Why do they require them? Is it because the brackets are there, on the wishbones, so they expect them to be used?
I would grind off the brackets (indeed, in my XJ40 conversion they are elmininated in the shortening process) and state that the radius arms were not fitted to this type of axle, which is factually true. It's worth noting that some of the early E-type prototypes did not have radius arms.
Can you lash up a bolt-on bracket on the chassis for them, which can be removed after your test?
Trust me, they're really not needed.
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Ulf, what happend with the trailing arms. Was it OK not using them or did you find a way to fit them?
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