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There were two inherent "problems" with the original leaf link.
First clamping the spring solid to the pivot created a bind, you could ease that by having the spring slide in the pivot. Second issue was even with ss prings it would kill the spring at the front eye very quickly. Calvert addresses this with their monos being much thicker than even the old made in Canada ss springs. Despite these correctable shortcomings they did work but were shelved when Jenkins tilted the playing field when he debuted his Vega



I don't think this is why Calvert has done a thick mono leaf. If you put a true leaf spring car on a four corner scale, then drive it around the block, and put it back on the scales, your readings will be different. Leafs bind on each other. The mono leaf is a more constant spring. When the Caltracs are under load, those monos are in tension. In the leaf link, the leaf is unfortunately in compression.

-Kenny