QD (quick disconnect) for the connecting and disconnecting of the sway bar. This design is an open spring design and is made of stainless steel components. I run one and quick connect and disconnect several times through out a trip.
Regarding the brace it is my contention that the braces that connect from the shock tower to the clutch tower are inducing additional movement from the impacts seen at the shock tower. Will this destroy your sled in a year, likely not. The other reason for this design is that the clutch forces are trying to pull the clutches together. With this in mind I tried to make the support as inline with this movement as possible. This is the movement we are trying to prevent, this is why this brace is inline with this movement. Besides the above two reasons if an impact large enough were to damage the shock assembly then you would damage the clutch tower, given you had a brace that attached the two points.
This bracket is very cost effective, comes with grade 8 1/4" bolt up front and replaces the clutch tower bolt with a grade 12.9 (metric). The brace itself is made from 6061-T6 aluminum of .250" thick. We pounded this bracket with big jumps and high speed whoops for days with no problems.
All my parts are designed using the latest CAD software.
For those of you contemplating the need for the clutch brace I can tell you for sure, even on the 09's, that this brace is needed. There was big time movement recorded. A person can make it move without even starting the engine.
$58.99 for the clutch tower brace and $10 priority shipping.
$QD's are $48.99 plus $5 shipping.
Additional notes;
The bracket was able to withstand more than 375lbs force from point A to B without deflection. Lets assume that there is 100ftlbs of tq from the engine. with 1200#'s at 1" from the center of the crank or 400#'s at 3". Assuming the belt on the primary is 3" average distance from center of the crank on initial engagement. And the secondary is about 8" average then the 400#'s transferred to the secondary is 3200#s (8x400) of pull. The connecting point from the center of the secondary is about 4". This would be 800#'s of force. Now I stated earlier that the brace had no deflection at 400#'s. The calculations above are assuming that the factory brace is not doing anything to hold the clutch in place. Could I have built something to hold all the force, sure but that is not needed as the factory clutch support is doing something or all of our sleds would be falling apart. I don't have my calculations in front of me so I could be off on my numbers some.
Regardless of the calculations, it works. And as the saying goes, "the proof is in the pudding!".
There are a couple of things I did to test. One is by testing the forces between the two points with a load cell.
Regarding the brace it is my contention that the braces that connect from the shock tower to the clutch tower are inducing additional movement from the impacts seen at the shock tower. Will this destroy your sled in a year, likely not. The other reason for this design is that the clutch forces are trying to pull the clutches together. With this in mind I tried to make the support as inline with this movement as possible. This is the movement we are trying to prevent, this is why this brace is inline with this movement. Besides the above two reasons if an impact large enough were to damage the shock assembly then you would damage the clutch tower, given you had a brace that attached the two points.
This bracket is very cost effective, comes with grade 8 1/4" bolt up front and replaces the clutch tower bolt with a grade 12.9 (metric). The brace itself is made from 6061-T6 aluminum of .250" thick. We pounded this bracket with big jumps and high speed whoops for days with no problems.
All my parts are designed using the latest CAD software.
For those of you contemplating the need for the clutch brace I can tell you for sure, even on the 09's, that this brace is needed. There was big time movement recorded. A person can make it move without even starting the engine.
$58.99 for the clutch tower brace and $10 priority shipping.
$QD's are $48.99 plus $5 shipping.
Additional notes;
The bracket was able to withstand more than 375lbs force from point A to B without deflection. Lets assume that there is 100ftlbs of tq from the engine. with 1200#'s at 1" from the center of the crank or 400#'s at 3". Assuming the belt on the primary is 3" average distance from center of the crank on initial engagement. And the secondary is about 8" average then the 400#'s transferred to the secondary is 3200#s (8x400) of pull. The connecting point from the center of the secondary is about 4". This would be 800#'s of force. Now I stated earlier that the brace had no deflection at 400#'s. The calculations above are assuming that the factory brace is not doing anything to hold the clutch in place. Could I have built something to hold all the force, sure but that is not needed as the factory clutch support is doing something or all of our sleds would be falling apart. I don't have my calculations in front of me so I could be off on my numbers some.
Regardless of the calculations, it works. And as the saying goes, "the proof is in the pudding!".
There are a couple of things I did to test. One is by testing the forces between the two points with a load cell.
