hey up fellas here is something my mate just brought to my attention, he has a vauxhall fronterra and found this on his forum from an american lad (bearing in mind im in the uk) who has a isuzu rodeo (same vehicle as fronterra) apparantly what this does is to allow more traction with ifs setups. with the pin in is for road drive and pin out is for offroad. now with the pin out it when you go over an obstacle it forces the other side of the vehicles ifs down for extra traction if that makes sense. if you guys have seen this before i appoligise but i thought it was a good idea and share it anyway. but heres the pics.

 

if you guys have come across this or know who made the original then again im not trying steel his idea or anything but thought you might fancy a look. let me know what all think.

 

Something ive havent seen before, looks very solid!

 

looks ok to me aswell mate the therory of it seems good but dont know if its any good????

 

Sounds like a similar idea to the cross-linked front air shocks:
- http://www.4x4wire.com/toyota/tech/air_shocks/

 

seems a similar approach but at least you have the choice to choose on road or offroad by pulling the pin out, also from what i can gather it wont change the geomatary of the shockers for body roll etc as it stays the same on road unlike the air shocker thing but off road it allows for exra droop. be intresting to know if anyone has done this already and let us know how it is in the flesh and any probs they have come across with it.

 

Main problem is that our transmission would get in the way :/
unless you lifted the drivetrain, then you'd have that thing hanging down haha.
seems like a pretty good idea, though.

 

idk where this thing mounts too..but a link to some more info would be nice!!!


but uh...still being limited by the CV's, i mean what would be the point of this?

 

With the air shocks, you can put a valve in the air line connecting the two sides, close the valve (on level ground) and you have normal shock operation and open the valve (to let air pass from side to side), then you have the forced articulation.

 

I'll get a link to the forum that my mate got this on, and post it up. I'm only going off what he told me so I'm not sure myself hence why I asked if you guys have seen this before ESP being a chap from your side of the world made it. On the air shocker thing is that anygood in reality? Again I don't know it seems us Brits arnt very inventive with stuff like this anymore or it's kept very quiet. The forum I'm on in the uk is www.hiluxsurf.co.uk which is pretty much exactly the same as this forum but not as friendly and it's more diesel based rather than petrol (gas). Anyway I'm off to get that link be back soon.

 

Found the link it seems it's been around a bit as I've just found the thread on our Hiluxsurf forum. But have a read and see if any of ya can make sense of it. http://forum.planetisuzoo.com/viewto...er=asc&start=0

 

Another guy added this to the rear as well:
- http://www.4x4wire.com/toyota/4Runne...ar_air_shocks/

And I think he has information on adding valves/etc. to control it's operation.

 

This is very interesting. It has even more potential with a long travel kit.

 

hmmmm so we gota think bout pros and cons of both setups and decide which would be safest cheapest and most practical to use on the yotas.