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Uncoupled strut suspension system

  • US 4,159,125 A
  • Filed: 11/04/1977
  • Issued: 06/26/1979
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/04/1977
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a suspension system on a motor vehicle having a frame supporting a body, a drive axle, and a road wheel operatively connected to the outer end of the drive axle, and including a laterally extending control arm having the inner end thereof pivotally connected to the frame, and a steering knuckle pivotally connected to the outer end of the control arm and surrounding the drive axle for rotatably supporting the wheel, the improvement comprising mounting bracket means mounted in a predetermined lateral attitude on the body of the vehicle above the drive axle and including a laterally oriented connector bushing, a telescopic shock absorber having the upper end thereof secured to the connector bushing and the lower end thereof secured to the steering knuckle rearward of the drive axle, on elongated coil spring retainer member secured at the upper end thereof to the connector bushing in juxtaposition with the upper end of the telescopic shock absorber, the elongated coil spring retainer and shock absorber diverging downwardly from the connector bushing so that the axes thereof define a predetermined angle therebetween as seen in the side view of the vehicle, and a coil spring mounted between the lower end of the elongated retainer member and the control arm forward of the drive axle with the axis of the coil spring coincident with the axis of the elongated coil spring retainer member.

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