I was told of one major incident caused by broken rod ends or the that was the presmption at the time. This practise is obviously a well used one that is an economic but mainly buildable answer to a problem, whether it is the only answer remains to be seen. I am getting the impression that webmasters have plateaued in performance due to tyre problems and they are caused by the current chassis design, or rather lack of it. Heresy? possibly, but I think the person who breaks through that barrier with good design and not just rehashed copying is going to wipe the floor with everyone for a long time. Karts everywhere, be it sprint or SK all suffer from the same thing, no true R & D has ever been done, testing, cutting, changing but no true R & D. The result is we have been trapped into a formula which has some bad practises built into it, or so it would appear.
I don't think it is a fault of the rod end design but the use of the thing. How much thread do you leave out of the rod. Better off to bury the thread and have an adjuster built into the rod itself.
Craig, it is not the fault of the rod end it is simply bad design principles using them in this manner. The loads are applied wrongly and this results in breakage. Pat clarke does know his onions and I for one would not argue with him on this point, I'll leave that to you. :)
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