home built lift on cart - help!!

[shmo]

Originally Posted by Mike Mac

So, what would the effect be if I were to switch places with the Jakes triangular piece and the bar. Meaning, if I put the triangle on the swing arm (inverted) and the bar up high just under the bumper?

I have seen this on carts before.

I wouldn't raise it that high, because if you get too carried away (like with most adjustments), you can get some sideways effects. However, placing the bar higher will raise the rear roll center of your cart.

SHMO

[sho305]

It may be slightly angled up because it would be level with a load on the cart?

I don't full understand what you mean with the bracket, but if you put a raised bracket on the axle strange things could happen when the rear articulated.

[Mike Mac]

I'm not about to do it. I have just seen it, and I don't know how to explain it, but it feels like it might have adverse affects. It seems like the best place for it to be is through the center line of the axle.

[shmo]

Originally Posted by Mike Mac

So, what would the effect be if I were to switch places with the Jakes triangular piece and the bar. Meaning, if I put the triangle on the swing arm (inverted) and the bar up high just under the bumper?

I have seen this on carts before.

I think altering the location of the bar on a golf cart wouldn't pay off, at least not in a handling/driveability aspect.

Mike Mac, yours "looks" to be about ideal. However, it appears like you have a couple locations to mount the bar on the axle mount. If you raised the bar (pointing up to the axle), you would take some body roll out of the cart. If your cart feels tippy, that might tune a little of that out. Of course, you would also unload the axle during cornering ever so slightly, but I don't think the loss in traction on a low speed vehicle would be all that noticeable. Who knows, maybe you could even get it to do some power slides...haha

If you lowered the position, it would load the axle harder (increasing traction), but it would induce more body roll.

SHMO

[stuff4mason]

Body roll is what atleast myself is trying to avoid!

[shmo]

Flatten out that Panhard bar then!....haha

SHMO

[Mike Mac]

Ever since I shimmed the front shocks, my car handles and corners very well at speed. I'm not gonna touch it!