| 21. | The car used an strut-type independent suspension in front with a live axle in the rear.
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| 22. | This replaced the non-independent " live axle " rear suspension used in previous model year Explorers.
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| 23. | Independent suspension requires additional engineering effort and expense in development versus a beam or live axle arrangement.
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| 24. | The rear used a live axle with a de Dion tube, trailing arms, and semi-elliptic leaf springs.
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| 25. | This system proved to be rather unreliable and was changed to a live axle setup in mid-2000.
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| 26. | The system uses longitudinal leaf springs attached both forward and behind the differential of the live axle.
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| 27. | The front wheels were suspension arrangement, where most contemporaries used live axle and cart-type leaf spring designs.
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| 28. | One chassis concept that often allows comparatively high RTI is the live axle ( beam axle ).
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| 29. | In the attached photo of a 5-link live axle suspension, the different types of links can be seen.
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| 30. | The rear is traditionally live axle, but has many variants including independent rear suspension or De Dion tube.
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