The HVSS suspension made it onto a lot of things built on the Sherman chassis as well. HVSS was also retrofitted onto older small hatch hulls used in Israel’s M50 and M51 Sherman tanks. The interchangeable suspension, even to older models surely prolonged the tanks life, and there’s a Canadian heavy equipment company still manufacturing ...

M4A3(76)W HVSS (M4A3E8) – nicknamed the "Easy Eight," from the E8 variation code identifying the HVSS suspension. Introduced in 1944, this was upgraded with widetrack HVSS, fitted with the 76mm M1A2 cannon, improved armor and firepower and wet stowed ammunition.

M4 tanks came with three types of suspension the early VVSS, VVSS, and HVSS. The early VVSS suspension system used 16 inch wide tracks. In the link above about Sherman details, you can see all the changes the basic VVSS system went through.

The M36 tank destroyer, formally 90 mm Gun Motor Carriage, M36, was an American tank destroyer used during World War II. The M36 combined the hull of the M10 tank destroyer, which used the M4 Sherman's reliable chassis and drivetrain combined with sloped armor, and a new turret mounting the 90 mm gun M3. Conceived in 1943, the M36 first served ...

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The HVSS system of an Israeli M51 Super Sherman tank. This type of a suspension system involved springing the pair of dual-mounted road wheels on each bogie against each other with a volute spring. First tried by Harry Knox on the Light Tank T6 project in 1938, it was essentially a version of the British Horstmann suspension that replaced the ...

M4A1E8/M4A1 (76)W HVSS -配有76 毫米M1坦克炮，使HVSS悬吊系统。 M4A1E9 -战后制造，可安装附加装甲，新的潜望镜和椭圆形的装填手炮塔舱门、VVSS悬吊系统，延长两边履带的连接环，但依旧使用旧式的75 毫米M3坦克炮。 M4A2-使用与早期型M3A3/M3A5同样的通用动力公司6046柴油引擎；首个使用焊接车体的型号；使用75 毫米M3坦克炮。 M4A2E4-使用扭力杆的悬吊，但从未投入生产。 M4A2E8/M4A2 (76)W HVSS-使用HVSS悬吊系统，装 …

E9 was applicable to any "vehicle using medium tank type vertical volute suspension," and, other than Shermans, appears on M36 and M36B2 Tank Destroyers, M32B1 Tank Recovery Vehicles and M7 Howitzer Motor Carriages. Manufacturers charged about $2000 more for HVSS installation, and we assume there would have been an additional charge for E9.

M36驅逐戰車正式名稱M36 90mm火炮載具（英語： 90 mm Gun Motor Carriage M36, 另名: Jackson），為一款美國軍隊于第二次世界大戰時期使用的驅逐戰車，沿襲了M10驅逐戰車的底盤，但換裝更大口徑的主炮足使它摧毀納粹德國的各式戰車，于1944年10月初次投入作戰， [1] 又有 ...

A new design on the M4 was the introduction of a new suspension system, the Horizontal Volute Spring Suspension (HVSS). Designed to improve the shock absorbing action and maintenance, the tracks were widened from 16½ inch (41 cm) to 23 inch (57.5 cm).