Little Low Red Wagon - The other Volvo wagon

[carter]

You should be fine keeping the panhard bar. I don't imagine you'll get enough suspension travel out of a bag over axle setup for it to pull the axle too much. You may need to re-work the mounts a bit to get it set up properly though. For a panhard bar, you want it as long as possible, and to be parallel with the ground at half travel to limit the deflection of the rear end during the suspension cycle.

I havent been under a Volvo in quite some time, so I don't remember off the top of my head what the panhard bar setup looks like under there...weather it will be too close to the bags and cause any interference issues...

It's actually not technically a bag over axle set up. They mount on the trailing arms, I'll get get a better pic up next time I'm near the car (25-30min drive away one way). Thanks for the info, I'll see how close to being parallel I am. What's the best way of taking measurements to see how far the diff has actually moved?

[manbeard]

You should be fine keeping the panhard bar. I don't imagine you'll get enough suspension travel out of a bag over axle setup for it to pull the axle too much. You may need to re-work the mounts a bit to get it set up properly though. For a panhard bar, you want it as long as possible, and to be parallel with the ground at half travel to limit the deflection of the rear end during the suspension cycle.

I havent been under a Volvo in quite some time, so I don't remember off the top of my head what the panhard bar setup looks like under there...weather it will be too close to the bags and cause any interference issues...

if he puts the bags in the stock spring locations, then it shouldn't be an issue with clearance or anything, right?

[egstance]

Nice work keep it up!!!

[low_blazer]

You should be fine keeping the panhard bar. I don't imagine you'll get enough suspension travel out of a bag over axle setup for it to pull the axle too much. You may need to re-work the mounts a bit to get it set up properly though. For a panhard bar, you want it as long as possible, and to be parallel with the ground at half travel to limit the deflection of the rear end during the suspension cycle.

I havent been under a Volvo in quite some time, so I don't remember off the top of my head what the panhard bar setup looks like under there...weather it will be too close to the bags and cause any interference issues...

[carter]

Can I not just build an adjustable pan hard and set it? Suspension travel won't be going nearly as high as it was stock so with an adjusted one built for my car at a certain ride height (as low as possible) it should track the same...no?

My other idea was to build a 4 link but avoid doing so if possible. I do want to drive this thing soon, but safely.

[low_blazer]

Awesome project man...I'm a huge fan of out of the box projects

[volvo=win]

+1 on the watts link.....

[protocaster]

Watts link would also work... and not cause the axel to move.

[manbeard]

it keeps the rear in line and all. im pretty sure you'd have to keep it when you bag the car. unless you build a four link or something like that

[Curt_pnw]

The pan hard bar keeps the diff centered so as the car raises and lowers the diff will move left to right some amount. I am not sure how important this is or if there is anything you can do about it when running bags.

[manbeard]

been following this on TB. i never knew you had a thread here. I love this car so much. giggidy giggidy.

[carter]

For some reason when I reply on my phone it attaches random pictures...wtf?

[carter]

http://www.airassisted.ca/osc/bracke...79c20c5467cf11

That's where I got the plates. I'm also in Canada mind you.

What exactly is the issue with the pan bar? Does it just pull the diff over? I haven't been able to crawl under and see what's going on.

[OpelWagenGT]

I too would like to know what you will end up doing with the pan hard bar since I have one on my car that I am doing bags on.

Great work so far where did you get the bag plates for so cheap?

-Aron

[carter]

Oops, $14 per cup. Plates were $7. I cut the pipe up at work and took it home lol.

Panhard bar requires modification from what I'm told but its still in there.