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Subject: KISS: Keep It Simple Silly Author: Bearhawke in Az [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 23:50:28 07/30/02 Tue In reply to: Frank S. 's message, "I forgot..." on 17:31:47 07/30/02 Tue I am not nor have ever been in law enforcement but I have been doing alignment work for over 10 years now..........and driven scads of vehicles. Long story short: what is the point of independent rear suspension in a truck/SUV or a police/taxi? IMHO there are simply more things to break as vs. a simple yet well located live rear end a la the 1998+ CVPI's. I am looking at it from a fleet service point of view. IRS: you are looking at halfshafts............can someone say 4 CV joints to crap out in addition to the 2, minimum, U joints in the driveshaft? Plus the mulitude of additional parts involved........no thank you. As a sidebar: one big reason that many of us own pickups and SUV's is due to relative simplicity...........otherwise instead of new trucks I would probably have purchased a new RWD sedan with a normal rear end...........assuming that one was available for under $22K or so............Camaros and Mustangs do not count...........too small. Bearhawke in Az [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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Subject Author Date RWD bruce bailey 00:16:34 08/09/02 Fri Ah, yes: the type of vehicle that takes a dump @ 2AM and can be fixed by a drunk hillbilly with tools available from Wal-Mart lol (I do NOT condone drunk driving at all: the hillbilly metaphor was to make my point re: KISS) (NT) -- Bearhawke in Az, 20:25:44 08/16/02 Fri