Angled spacer mount
AssigneeFabtech Industries, Inc.
InventorsBrent Riley, Steven Erdelyi
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Abstract
An angled spacer mount for a suspension of a vehicle is disclosed. The angled spacer mount has upper and lower flanges that are set apart from each other at a specific skewed angle. By doing so, the angled spacer mount may be mounted to a spring perch of the suspension of the vehicle to change a curvature characteristic of a coil spring used in the vehicle suspension. The angled spacer mount may be operative to straighten a coil spring to better isolate road conditions from a passenger compartment.
Claims15
A vehicle suspension system of a vehicle, the system comprising:
- a frame of the vehicle;
- a coil spring rubber isolator mounted to an underside of an upper portion of the frame of the vehicle;
- an axle pivotally attached to a lower portion of the frame of the vehicle, the axle having a spring perch;
- a coil spring alignment spacer mounted to the spring perch, the spacer having:
- a lower flange sized and configured to mount to the spring perch;
- an upper flange sized and configured to mate with the coil spring;
- an extension having an upper end and a lower end at a skewed angle with respect to the upper end, the upper flange being attached to and in line with the upper end of the extension, the lower flange being attached to and in line with the lower end of the extension wherein the upper and lower flanges are oriented at the skewed angle with respect to each other;
- a spring locator extending perpendicularly with respect to the upper flange;
- a coil spring defining an upper end and a lower end, the upper end of the coil spring seated on the coil spring rubber isolator, the lower end disposed about the spring locator and seated on the upper flange of the spacer.
A kit for a suspension of a vehicle, the kit comprising:
- a coil spring defining an upper end and a lower end, the upper end seatable onto coil spring rubber isolator of the suspension of the vehicle;
- a coil spring alignment spacer for mounting the coil spring to a suspension of the vehicle, the spacer having:
- a lower flange sized and configured to mount to a spring perch of an axle of the suspension of the vehicle;
- an upper flange sized and configured to receive the lower end of the coil spring;
- an extension having an upper end and a lower end at a skewed angle, the upper flange being attached to and in line with the upper end of the extension, the lower flange being attached to and in line with the lower end of the extension wherein the upper and lower flanges are oriented at the skewed angle with respect to each other;
- a spring locator extending perpendicularly with respect to the upper flange.
A method of installing a kit onto a suspension of a vehicle, the method comprising the steps of:
- removing a factory coil spring and a lower rubber isolator from the suspension of the vehicle;
- mounting a lower flange of a coil spring alignment spacer to a spring perch of the suspension of the vehicle;
- disposing a lower end of the coil spring of the kit between the coil spring alignment spacer and a coil spring upper rubber isolator by aligning, an upper end of the coil spring to the coil spring upper rubber isolator and a lower end of the coil spring to the coil spring alignment spacer so that the coil spring is straight when the vehicle is at rest.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.