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Subject: KISS: Keep It Simple Silly

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Bearhawke in Az

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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

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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