Up until the mid-'70s, most cars came from the factory with a solid rear axle suspended by two semielliptic, parallel leaf springs. A leaf spring is made | up of one or more long, narrow strips of ...

Leaf springs are treated like archaic tech, as they aren’t found under any of the latest industry-leading performance cars, and are often used as a point of reference that shows how “dated” a ...

If drum brakes and flat-tappet camshafts are old-school technology, then springs are quite literally ancient. In some respects the wooden bows and catapults used by medieval knights to bludgeon their ...

The current Suburban, introduced for the 2015 model year, utilizes a solid axle with five-link location and coil springs. Solid rear axles are common in pickups and SUVs that ride on body-on-frame ...

Building a hot rod means working all the angles, and there are plenty of angles to work. One of the more important angles is the angle between your transmission output shaft (which is the same as the ...

That's right—the new Ford F-150 Lightning is the first (and only) Ford F-150—and only full-size pickup, actually—with independent rear suspension (IRS) in place of traditional leaf springs and a live ...

A new report from our sister site, Ford Authority, indicates a new Ford F-150 with independent rear suspension is currently in the works. It’s not clear when the updated F-150 will arrive, although it ...