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    A leaf spring is a simple form of spring commonly used for suspension in wheeled vehicles. Originally called a laminated or carriage spring, and sometimes...
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  • A Corvette leaf spring is a type of independent suspension that utilizes a fiber-reinforced plastic (FRP) mono-leaf spring instead of more conventional...
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    The Chevrolet Corvette is a line of American two-door, two-seater sports cars manufactured and marketed by General Motors under the Chevrolet marque since...
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    the spring only acts as a spring member. The AC Cobra is an example of a transverse, multi-leaf steel spring suspension that uses the leaf spring as the...
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  • Multi-leaf springs are widely used for the suspension of cars, trucks and railway wagons. A multi-leaf spring consists of a series of flat plates, usually...
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    just a spring Trampoline Upholstery coil springs Vehicle suspension, Leaf springs Shock absorber Slinky, helical spring toy Volute spring "spring". Oxford...
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    Transverse leaf spring front suspension is a type of automotive front suspension, whose usage is most well known in Ford Motor Company products from 1908...
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    approximately 1750, leaf springs began appearing on certain types of carriage, such as the Landau. By the middle of the 19th century, elliptical springs might additionally...
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    build up the leaf springs is by using an add-a-leaf. This is done by inserting an extra leaf into the vehicle's leaf pack. Using the add-a-leaf will increase...
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    rack and pinion steering while still using transverse leaf spring suspension (with the leaf spring doubling as the upper suspension link). The new car entered...
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  • long travel. The result is more stable and powerful than any leaf, coil, or torsion bar spring in the same volume.[citation needed] Mounted vertically in...
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    resistance. Spring-based shock absorbers commonly use coil springs or leaf springs, though torsion bars are used in torsional shocks as well. Ideal springs alone...
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  • Air suspension (redirect from Air Spring)
    principle remains the same. The metal spring (coil or leaf) is removed, and an air bag, also referred to as an air spring, is inserted or fabricated to fit...
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    rear-leaf spring suspension, while the GMT820/830 SUV models used a five-link coil-spring suspension. (The 2500 series GMT830 SUV models retained a leaf spring...
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    the Wrangler TJ onwards, all Wranglers were fitted with coil-spring instead of leaf-spring suspension, the automatic shifter was relocated to the floor...
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    neither proposal was adopted, and Krupp instead equipped it with a simple leaf spring double-bogie suspension, with eight rubber-rimmed road wheels per side...
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    than the liner acts like the leaf spring/lock bar. Another variation, known as the inset Linerlock has the leaf spring embedded into the plastic scales...
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    split lengthwise and splayed slightly, a tip of four leaf springs, a cylinder with a single leaf spring on one side, a bundle of stiff wire, a central pin...
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    Hotchkiss drive is the fact that the axle housing is firmly attached to the leaf springs to transfer the axle torque through them to the car body. Also, it uses...
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  • Look up leaf or leaves in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A leaf is an organ of a vascular plant. Leaf or Leaves may also refer to: Leaf, Georgia, United...
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    material (as in a Tic Tac box's lid). Leaf spring: Leaf Springs are commonly used in vehicle suspensions. Leaf springs are an example of a flexure system...
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    such as adopting coil springs front and rear, as opposed to all leaf springs on the previous; except for retaining rear leaf springs on high capacity (payload)...
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    the Adell and Starrett patent, but with a coil spring to return the sliding block rather than a leaf spring, but a more involved scheme to slide the block...
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    brakes, conventional leaf springs at the rear and wishbone type independent front end. The front end used a single transverse leaf spring. In Japan the car...
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    a closed rectangular cross-section) until immediately after the rear leaf spring mounting bracket, where the frame transitions into a C-shaped cross-section...
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    tank designs. It allowed considerably longer movement than conventional leaf spring systems then in common use, which allowed his tanks to have considerably...
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    trailing arm suspension with coil springs and hydraulic dampers at front and swing axles with a transverse leaf spring at the rear. The 8C 2900A was shown...
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    fiberglass mono-leaf spring combined with struts in the rear. The "generation 1.5" W-body models had updated rear suspensions that used coil springs instead of...
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    principal mechanical changes were: coil spring (instead of leaf spring) live front axle; longer rear leaf springs; 5-bolt wheels instead of 6-bolt wheels;...
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    : 32 : 425  Leaf springs Main suspension springs for the locomotive. Each driving wheel supports its share of the locomotive's weight via leaf springs that connect...
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