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Which vehicle components are considered unsprung weight?
Components of the unsprung mass include the wheel axles, wheel bearings, wheel hubs, tires, and a portion of the weight of driveshafts, springs, shock absorbers, and suspension links.
What components are part of the unsprung weight of a vehicle and what would be some ways to reduce it?
How to reduce unsprung mass
- Tires. Road tires are heavy.
- Wheels. As with tires, road cars have rugged steel or alloy wheels that are capable of taking a beating on rough roads.
- Nuts and Bolts.
- Lugnuts.
- Suspension.
- Brakes.
Are brake rotors unsprung weight?
Unsprung weight includes everything not supported by the suspension. Much of this weight is rotational mass, such as the wheels and brake rotors.
How do you measure unsprung weight?
Unsprung weight can be measured by removing shocks from the vehicle and weighing the axles, tires, wheel. If the weight can’t be directly measured with scales, we can look it up using our vast collection of data.
Where is unsprung weight on a car?
Sprung and Unsprung Weight Your car’s chassis, body, engine, exhaust, interior, and ultimately you as the driver all fall into this category. Unsprung weight is everything that is on the other side of the suspension. The wheels, brakes, control arms, wheel hub, and the rest of the goodies fall into this category.
Is the steering knuckle sprung weight?
Rotating mass is what it sounds like, anything that has to rotate when the car goes forward, so for example the steering knuckle is unsprung but doesn’t rotate, while the half shaft is rotating but only partly unsprung.
How do I tell how wheels are traveling?
“The best method for measuring frame travel may be to remove the shock and measure the vertical travel at the rear axle, with the suspension linkage at the full shock length, and at the shock bottom-out length (original eye-to-eye minus manufacturers specified shock stroke).
Where do you measure ground clearance?
Ground clearance is almost the same thing as ride height, but it is measured simply from the lowest part of your car to the ground.