Even the placement of the spare tyre was used to protect the occupants from rear end collisions in that era. Fairly primitive stuff these days but it worked well up to a point. One of the few problems that early 1600's had was cracking in the towers - the rubber insulators fixed the problem. Tower problems returned in the 180B but you don't hear much of the problem these days.
regards Terry -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:membersozdat_owner@;datascribe.com.au]On Behalf Of Rob P Sent: Saturday, 2 November 2002 12:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Strut brace works for me! The fuel tank stiffens the rear as well?, very clever. I've pulled a couple tanks in and out of 1600s and never realized this added benefit of mounting the tank that way. From memory there are rectangular rubber peices as part of the mounting hardware. Does this allow some slight movement of the rear towers without kinking the tank I wonder? Maybe I should switch to nolothane for that extra 0.00014% of chassis stiffness ..ha ha ;P Rob P --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/membersozdat@;datascribe.com.au/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
