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Bobby Tanner's new shocks?
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<blockquote data-quote="TacomaJD" data-source="post: 406419" data-attributes="member: 1780"><p><strong>Re: Re: Bobby Tanner's new shocks?</strong></p><p></p><p>I have read just about every article pertaining to setting up/tuning air shocks that I could search for on Pirate and other offroad forums also that came up in Google search results. I've never read anything that contradicted the 4-6" sweet spot rule of thumb. There's probably a reason for that. Now, ORI's are a different story since they possess an upper and lower N20 chamber. Most run ORI's with approx half shaft showing, as far as I've seen, since you can control the unloading with the lower chamber psi while still having plenty up travel. Youtube search for AZ Undertakers or Arizona Undertakers, and watch a few of their vids. There are several VERY capable rigs in their club that run air shocks, a lot are even running 2.0's and work excellent. All of their air shocks are set up with very little shaft showing.</p><p></p><p>Brandon's buggy before he swapped to C/O's for reference. 16" Fox 2.5's</p><p><img src="http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/06/19/asa3uvy5.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Pic of my rear 2.5's, which came off of Brandon's buggy. They work well set with this much shaft showing. This was actually taken before my front end got linked and Angryfab recharged the air shocks in the rear before I picked it up. It's currently setting a little higher than in these pics and does good, but I plan on burping some N20 out and lowering the air shocks back down about an inch or two, to about what they are set at in this pic, then adjusting preload on c/o's to lower front end down to level.</p><p><img src="http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/06/19/eguje5es.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/06/19/yra4u7u6.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TacomaJD, post: 406419, member: 1780"] [b]Re: Re: Bobby Tanner's new shocks?[/b] I have read just about every article pertaining to setting up/tuning air shocks that I could search for on Pirate and other offroad forums also that came up in Google search results. I've never read anything that contradicted the 4-6" sweet spot rule of thumb. There's probably a reason for that. Now, ORI's are a different story since they possess an upper and lower N20 chamber. Most run ORI's with approx half shaft showing, as far as I've seen, since you can control the unloading with the lower chamber psi while still having plenty up travel. Youtube search for AZ Undertakers or Arizona Undertakers, and watch a few of their vids. There are several VERY capable rigs in their club that run air shocks, a lot are even running 2.0's and work excellent. All of their air shocks are set up with very little shaft showing. Brandon's buggy before he swapped to C/O's for reference. 16" Fox 2.5's [IMG]http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/06/19/asa3uvy5.jpg[/IMG] Pic of my rear 2.5's, which came off of Brandon's buggy. They work well set with this much shaft showing. This was actually taken before my front end got linked and Angryfab recharged the air shocks in the rear before I picked it up. It's currently setting a little higher than in these pics and does good, but I plan on burping some N20 out and lowering the air shocks back down about an inch or two, to about what they are set at in this pic, then adjusting preload on c/o's to lower front end down to level. [IMG]http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/06/19/eguje5es.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/06/19/yra4u7u6.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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