I know next to nothing about suspension. Before I die I would like to know the part(s) that allow gravity to be defied. What keeps the passenger side level on builds like this one? No need to get technical as it would go over my head. Is the Ori's?

Thanks

 

a long travel strut or shock. I would guess 16" in this photo with the compression set pretty low. Its really not that big a flex in the off road world.

 

OK, The strut, I just can not imagine how it extends, rather than the chassis dropping. Magic

 

Still, awesome photo of a capable build !

Mind you - it would get friggin' cold in the snow & rain we see on the West Coast ....

Neville

 

there is no front sway bar in that build, can't see the rear well enough but if there is a rear swaybar then the chassis would tend to follow the rear.

 

You don't need sway bars with ORI struts. The old jeep stays level because there is nothing pulling it down in the front right. The other three wheels are basically on level ground and it has the suspension travel to drop in the hole.

 

Nothing pulling on it but gravity. My thinking must be all wrong on this. I just can not figure out how the strut goes down, but not the chassis. I see it, but it's like magic.

 

That gravity is keeping the other 3 wheels that is holding up the chassis level.

 

Keep in mind that the back left wheel is also dropping quite a bit. Most of the vehicles weight are on the front left and back right wheels. If the front right wheel was the only wheel that was drooping that low then (unless my physics understanding of this suspension is wrong) the chassis would dip down and to the right a little bit.