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Full hydro steering, unequal length tie rods causing major handling problems?
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<blockquote data-quote="urbex" data-source="post: 762568" data-attributes="member: 15915"><p>Every day I'm learning more and more about this stuff...I do seem to recall that I couldn't compress the shock body when it was charged without springs before. I just went out and grabbed one of the spares, and did a quick test with it, without springs installed. Empty, it's easy to compress the full stroke. Charged to 100psi, closed off the nitrogen cylinder, but left the hose and gauge attached, with the fill adapter holding the fill valve open. </p><p></p><p>Pushed down on the shock, and watched the pressure go up to roughly 150psi. It was fairly difficult to compress, and I couldn't get the full 12" of stroke out of it. Got maybe to 8" or so. Charged it to 200psi, and now I can't get more than about an inch of compression out of it just with my body weight. </p><p></p><p>I'm not claiming one way or the other, but it at least appears that the nitrogen charge is supporting some of the weight. Maybe it's just a lot more obvious on my overgrown featherweight go-kart of a rig than on the more typical 5,000lb+ rigs? </p><p></p><p>Went back and forth in my head a lot last night, and decided my wisest choice at this point is to finish building out the front tube work, cage, etc before making a spring swap out, as I'm still really just guessing on what my final chassis weight is going to be. I don't _think_ it's going to go up more than a few hundred pounds at this point, but I figure it's not like I'm gonna be running trails until I finish it all out anyways, so I might as well wait to pick up more springs. </p><p></p><p>But it's at least close enough on the alignment side of things that I feel fairly confident that I'm not going to have to make major chassis/suspension changes, so I can keep moving forward on it now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="urbex, post: 762568, member: 15915"] Every day I'm learning more and more about this stuff...I do seem to recall that I couldn't compress the shock body when it was charged without springs before. I just went out and grabbed one of the spares, and did a quick test with it, without springs installed. Empty, it's easy to compress the full stroke. Charged to 100psi, closed off the nitrogen cylinder, but left the hose and gauge attached, with the fill adapter holding the fill valve open. Pushed down on the shock, and watched the pressure go up to roughly 150psi. It was fairly difficult to compress, and I couldn't get the full 12" of stroke out of it. Got maybe to 8" or so. Charged it to 200psi, and now I can't get more than about an inch of compression out of it just with my body weight. I'm not claiming one way or the other, but it at least appears that the nitrogen charge is supporting some of the weight. Maybe it's just a lot more obvious on my overgrown featherweight go-kart of a rig than on the more typical 5,000lb+ rigs? Went back and forth in my head a lot last night, and decided my wisest choice at this point is to finish building out the front tube work, cage, etc before making a spring swap out, as I'm still really just guessing on what my final chassis weight is going to be. I don't _think_ it's going to go up more than a few hundred pounds at this point, but I figure it's not like I'm gonna be running trails until I finish it all out anyways, so I might as well wait to pick up more springs. But it's at least close enough on the alignment side of things that I feel fairly confident that I'm not going to have to make major chassis/suspension changes, so I can keep moving forward on it now. [/QUOTE]
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