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Click to find out how to purchase this photo. Tank Museum photo No. 4518/G/1

Time now to look at progress on the suspension system Various suspension components cleaned up, repainted and ready to install. These are the idler wheel arms and bolts with their securing collars.

This is one of the link arms, fitted to the leading torsion bars, which connect with the shock absorbers.

Click to find out how to purchase this photo. Tank Museum photo No. 4518/G/3

Click to find out how to purchase this photo. Tank Museum photo No. 4522/F/6

In this view we are looking at one of the brackets, mounted on the hull side above the extreme front and rear axle arms, which holds a rubber block to act as a bump stop. Notice how, as with most German tank components, part numbers are actually cast into the item.

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