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Bobby Tanner's new shocks?
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<blockquote data-quote="TacomaJD" data-source="post: 406301" data-attributes="member: 1780"><p>Since you set ride height with nitrogen, by the time you pumped the shocks up enough to support your rig and have half the shaft showing, would you not then encounter limited up travel because of the volume of nitrogen. Of course rig weight and a few other factors could play a part here, but the big thing I think is that the 4-6" of shaft showing is the 4-6" of compression space needed for the air spring. Once the nitrogen compresses so much to create the air spring to support the rig on a bump or when flexing, uptravel is no more. The nitrogen can only compress so much before uptravel stops and it begins to move the whole chassis instead. Now, if you have a 14" air shock, half the shaft would be 7".......50/50 shaft length would be more feasible maybe? But hell, then half of a 16" is only 8", maybe that would work by theory too? .....maybe I'm overthinking this entire thing or even completely thinking wrong?</p><p></p><p> I know I've only got about 6" of shaft showing on my 16" Fox 2.5's on the rear of my truck now and I have never bottomed the shocks out, and it rides plenty soft. Actually been thinking about lowering it about an inch on both the front c/o's and the rear air shocks to gain a little stability.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TacomaJD, post: 406301, member: 1780"] Since you set ride height with nitrogen, by the time you pumped the shocks up enough to support your rig and have half the shaft showing, would you not then encounter limited up travel because of the volume of nitrogen. Of course rig weight and a few other factors could play a part here, but the big thing I think is that the 4-6" of shaft showing is the 4-6" of compression space needed for the air spring. Once the nitrogen compresses so much to create the air spring to support the rig on a bump or when flexing, uptravel is no more. The nitrogen can only compress so much before uptravel stops and it begins to move the whole chassis instead. Now, if you have a 14" air shock, half the shaft would be 7".......50/50 shaft length would be more feasible maybe? But hell, then half of a 16" is only 8", maybe that would work by theory too? .....maybe I'm overthinking this entire thing or even completely thinking wrong? I know I've only got about 6" of shaft showing on my 16" Fox 2.5's on the rear of my truck now and I have never bottomed the shocks out, and it rides plenty soft. Actually been thinking about lowering it about an inch on both the front c/o's and the rear air shocks to gain a little stability. [/QUOTE]
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