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Anti-roll bar (in red) attached to a front axle. The bar must also have its two longitudinal anchor points fastened solidly to transfer forces from side to side. An anti-sway or anti-roll bar is intended to reduce the lateral tilt (roll) of the vehicle on curves, sharp corners, or large bumps.
Some Johnson bars have a fully ratcheting mechanism, some just a series of detents, and others yet simply engaged and disengaged positions. A common example is the Johnson bar-controlled parking brake found on many trucks and buses. Johnson bar is also the North American term for a steam engine's reversing lever, used to control the valve gear ...
Roll bar or rollbar may refer to: Roll bar, also known as anti-roll bar or sway bar, a torsion spring bar that reduces vehicle roll; Roll cage, a vehicle frame designed to protect occupants in the event of a crash; Rollover protection structure, or rollover bar, similar in purpose to a roll cage, and fitted to open-topped cars or agricultural ...
A strut bar, strut brace, or strut tower brace (STB) is an automotive suspension accessory on a monocoque or unibody chassis to provide extra stiffness between the strut towers. With a MacPherson strut suspension system where the spring and shock absorber combine in one suspension unit, which also replaces the upper control arm, the entire ...
(The Center Square) — New York's population could decline by more than 2 million people over the next 25 years as fewer people are born in the state and more people move out, according to a new ...
Torsion bar suspensions are used on combat vehicles and tanks like the T-72, Leopard 1, Leopard 2, M26 Pershing, M18 Hellcat, M48 Patton, M60 Patton and the M1 Abrams (many tanks from World War II used this suspension), and on modern trucks and SUVs from Ford, Chrysler, GM, Mitsubishi, Mazda, Nissan, Isuzu, LuAZ, and Toyota.
A 66-year-old paedophile who sexually abused two girls more than 30 years ago has been jailed for 22 years. Kevin Calderbank carried out the sexual assaults in Peterborough between 1985 and 1989.
The California Department of Motor Vehicles has apologized for an “unacceptable and disturbing” personalized truck license plate that the agency said displayed hate speech related to the ...