So you need to take great care in your design, to make sure the suspension is not faultily designed, in other words, the angle of the incidence and all of the other five criteria are fulfilled, otherwise you are going to have some sort of problem. I am not trying to make it sound complicated, but it can be, were trying to get a lot done, make a lot happen in a small area. The second complication is the linkages, for instance the steering linkages, the center lines so that are not out of sink and cause the wheels to move when the suspension is flexed.Īnd thirdly you have the drive components which you are trying to convey the drive power through the suspension component.įourthly, how do you actually get the suspension to be springy?Īnd I hate to keep going on, but Fifthly, How do I actually configure my suspension system?Īll of these questions need to be addressed when you are dealing with suspension. Well suspension systems by their nature can be complicated because of how the wheels hit the ground, that is the most complicated part of it. “Whoa! That looks expensive! It it really necessary? Man how would I actually build that?” One of these fancy ones with suspension on it, we look at it and we are like: Other Articles/Videos on Go Kart Suspensions: