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Originally Posted by Mean 69
A bending moment is present anytime a link is subject to a force that is not purely compressive/tensile (let's forget about torsion for the moment).
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You cannot react a moment through a rod end. So, there is no bending moment. Example. Fix your link to a wall and hang off the end. That is a bending moment. When you hang on the link it bends. Now take the attachment at the wall and replace it with a spherical bearing. Then hang on it. First you won't be able too because it will slam down parallel to the wall. No bending. About the only think the link can do is buckle under axial loading. That's it.
As for the other stuff, thanks for the answers. I will just leave it at that. I never wanted a spreadsheet. Just ranges. So if you took the lowest AS, ride height, etc and then the highest. That is all I wanted to know.
I would concentrate on SEMA. It is quickly approaching. I will monitor this thread. Posting will become more infrequent. I get the feeling I am not welcome here.
One point of advice. Watch all your friends on this board. If people start flocking here to check out this new suspension. They may scare them off. Your friends will buy it because they know you and have tracked your efforts. Customers A-X, do not know you and will ask similar questions, probably more probing. I myself had more questions, but they can wait.
I am not 100% satisfied with the tech brought forth, but I will refrain from final judgement until SEMA is over. Your efforts should be placed on that rather than this for now.