First off, I don't build chassis, never have, but I have a question for those more knowledgable than me. This is not meant to be critical of anyones builds or practices, just curious.
One thing I have noticed on several car builds on this site and on a race car being built in KC a couple of weeks ago. I don't quite under stand why to locate an axle lateraly (front or rear) a mechanism is built that is on heim ends front and rear. The confusing part is at the chassis, generally it is built out of tubing, triangulated, cross braced, gusseted, plated or otherwise strenghtened and hell bent for stout and at the axle all that is there is one heim joint under shear at the threads (if that is the proper term), which is their weak spot. To me, like a robot in some long ago SiFi, "that does not compute". Any information or theories accepted.
I asked the guy building the car at KC about it and his only answer was "that's the way everybody does it".
Ron