Just a late evening thought.

Should the closed length of the shock absorber be above the point that the car bottoms out?

I thought bottoming out was when the shocks reached their closed length.

Otherwise your car will be dragging on the road, which can only be a bad thing....

Well, the temporary shocks i have atm are at 12" and i have 3/4 inch ground clearance so what i wanted to know is whether i needed 12" closed diameter shocks.

I prefer to set mine up so they control droop on the wheel, this generally means spare travel when fully compressed.

This then allows you to add bump stops on the rod, so on full compression it does not bang into the chassis.

Droop is the soft side so no need to protect here.

Regards Mark

I was under the impression that the idea was for the shocks to bottom out on to the rubber stops (bump stops I think they are called?) at full compression and so determine the minimum ride height of the car.

HTH

JB

Hi

And remeber that the damper manufacturers when quoting closed length are not including the bump stop. IE a closed length of 8" will be touching the bump stop at 9" assuming a 1" bump stop is fitted.

Cheers Matt

How easy is it to move the bump stops?

Move or remove?

If you need to remove them it should be easy with a stan the man knife, but I wouldn,t, they are there for a good reason.

JB

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Originally posted by Daddylonglegs
Move or remove?

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