Control arm

A wishbone is a part of the suspension of two-lane vehicles. He is mounted transversely to the direction and connected by joints with body and wheel carrier ( " articulated ").

Application Examples

Rigid axle

A typical control arm for lateral guidance of a rigid axle is the Panhard rod (right).

Independent suspension

Wishbone occur both in the single- suspension of a front and a rear wheel. Variants are double wishbone, multi-link suspension and the rarer the combination used today by the majority of a single link with a MacPherson strut.

Typical shape of a wishbone suspension is for a along one side of the vehicle hinged triangle. In modern vehicles, the bar is often a curved bar (sickle handlebar or beam deflection called ), wherein the vehicle - side bearing are offset in the longitudinal direction, so as to gain space for the drive shafts. At the front, two in-plane single wishbone are sometimes installed with swivel points next to each other on the wheel side directly into the rim to reduce the scrub radius.

Wishbone take along with the strut tower ( which also carries the vertical forces, ie the weight of the vehicle) that occur during acceleration, braking and cornering forces on horizontal. He is outside pivotally connected to the lower end of the strut ( the front wheel rotatable about the vertical axis about which the steering movements;, the camber is the upper bearing of the strut ). The inside is in a direction and by the two bearings (usually composite bearing rubber and metal) leading shaft rotatable to allow the vertical movements of the spring strut ( suspension).

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