To begin with, we will understand why it is generally needed a strut of the front racks. To do this, you will need to turn to the car body design.

The body of any machine consists of a variety of details interconnected. Connect body parts with bolts, rivets, glue and welding. Therefore, when the load is applied, the body parts have some freedom of movement relative to each other. The less such freedom, the closer the body to the state of the whole whole, that is, tougher. And the higher the rigidity of the car body, the better it is controlled. Especially noticeable difference when moving and performing maneuvers at high speeds.

How the front strut increases the rigidity

The strut, otherwise called the stretching of the front racks, is a pipe round or rectangular section, on the sides to which the mounting grounds are welded. The design is located across the engine compartment. Fasten it to glasses of racks, using the bolts of their supports.

The absence of displacement of parts of the body of the machine relative to each other has a positive effect on the controllability of the car. Also, stretching between cups of support perceives part of the shock loads coming from the suspension, thereby extending the automotive body life.

When turning, the strut stands arranged in this way limits the mutual movement of the right and left cups of the front shock absorbers, tying them into a single integer. This gives additional rigidity to the automotive body.

Types of spacer

The struts between the supports of the shock absorbers by the number of fasteners are divided into:

Two-point attached only to the cups of the right and left sprinkles. Three-point has an additional place of attachment to the engine shield. The second type of stretching gives the body more stiffness, but harder in the installation - the place of attachment on the engine shield will have to be equipped with your own hands.

Stretching between supports can be:

• adjustable;
• unregulated.

Unregulated stretching is a solid part without detachable connections. Adjustable consists of two parts, interconnected with a clutch, which allows you to increase and reduce the length of the part. The rigidity of the unregulated strut is lower, so it should be used only if none of the hard struts is suitable at the fastening places.

The shape of the cross section of the pipe is a rectangle or a circle - is not fundamental. But with increasing thickness, the stiffness of the structure increases. But the more thickness, the greater the weight. Comething is the thickness of 2 to 3 mm, and then it all depends on the brand of the car and the presence and configuration of the free space for a stretching in the subcontrol space.

Buy or make it yourself

Make a stretching of the front racks with your own hands is quite difficult and considerable in time. It is necessary to be able to cook or have among familiar experienced welder. It is not bad to have access to the lathe, as cutting holes for glasses of racks in the future flange fastening with a grinder.

Given the abundance in the market inexpensive and high-quality products of domestic and foreign manufacturers, the meaning in the independent manufacture of stretching of the front racks is lost. The seeming savings will not pay off the cost of time for the manufacture.

How to put the front strut

Set the stretching of the front racks with your own hands quite easily. To do this, you must purchase a strut, designed specifically for your car model and further:

• unscrew the fastening nuts of the front shock absorbers;
• wear on the stoves fastening the flanges of the fastening of the details, not forgetting to put the washers under it;
• fix stretch marks with nuts.

If the car intended for the car does not want to be installed on the regular places for fastening, it means, on the time and loads of the cups of the supports changed their location and got together. Then you have to install an adjustable stretch.

When installing an adjustable spacer, it should be remembered that the coupling is intended only so that the part freely approaches the places of the regular attachment. It is impossible to pull up or cutting it with it after installation.

Important! For the correct installation of the stretching of the front glasses, the car should be located on a flat horizontal surface.

Additional tuning

Car enthusiasts who have already felt the benefits of the front racks can continue to improve the hardness characteristics of the body of their car. To do this, they will need the strut of the rear glasses of racks. It acts as well as the strut of the front glasses of racks - additionally communicating the power elements on the right and left sides of the car body, it does not allow them to move relative to each other.

Is it worth a candle game

Thus, it can be concluded that the front strut improves the behavior of the car on the road and prevents the mutual movement of the body parts, perceiving part of the loads on itself, extended its service life. The disadvantage of it is only one - with lateral impact, the load is transmitted to the right, and on the left side. This leads to complex distortions when it could not be without stretching.

Is the only lack of a weighty argument against the installation of the part on the car, ultimately solve the car owner. But given the fact of improving manageability, which means both active safety of the car, one can state that the advantages of the use of such a design in the car are much more than minuses.