Leopard 2 - getting busy with the dremel

[Mike1970]

The Leopard 2 suffers with too little front droop so I've attacked the chassis with the sanding drum on my dremel. The front droop screw contact point on the chassis and 5mm further back (to stop the wishbone hitting) has been ground on an angle to increase the amount of droop available in order to make the front end more adjustable.

I'll post pics later.

 

[Mike1970]

here they are.

 

[voo2doo]

Looking good.
J

 

[Mike1970]

Just a simple mod like that can make so much difference to set ups.

 

[voo2doo]

I know where your coming from Mike.

J

 

[sperera]

i like it mike, more suspension travel now!

 

[Mike1970]

i like it mike, more suspension travel now!

it is possible to do it on the rear but A you'd have to mod the rear arms, B there is a real chance you'd run out of contact area for the ball drives and 3 you don't need it anyway.

 

[pipeous]

same thing we had to do to the first model of xray xb8. need more front travel for rougher tracks. nice job shed man

 

[Mike1970]

We had with the chassis at normal ride height (38mm off the top of the chassis next to the end of the carbon strip) approx 48mm droop, after the mod we now have 68mm droop. The shocker still need compressing slightly to push it on the top bolt so there is no danger of stress on the piston or the end of the shaft and the extra droop will help massively with handling.