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Bobby Tanner's new shocks?
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<blockquote data-quote="TacomaJD" data-source="post: 406497" data-attributes="member: 1780"><p><strong>Re: Re: Re:</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I assume not, as when I asked what the valving was, he told me the numbers that were engraved on the shocks from the factory. However, I went to pick them up from him when he was at Pete Deck's (Dirty South Motorsports, who built the Ford buggy and done all the mods/tuning on it) and Pete mentioned that they played with the oil levels. He never said anything about valving. </p><p></p><p>When he was ready to sell, he had 2 bent ones and 2 straight ones. I said I wanted the two straight ones, because at the time I was not confident in my ability to tear the shock apart and replace the bent shaft. Turns out the straight ones were from different ends of the buggy. One was black top, and one was the previous blue top. One was valved 40/90, the other was valved 40/80. The one that was on the front had more N20 in it to support engine weight, but after burping it out enough to feel close to the other one and sit level side to side, they worked awesome and I could/can not tell a difference in the valving. HUGE improvement in body roll over the 18" 2.0's that were on it that were valved 30/90. Of course body roll was ridded completely when I got rid of the leafs and went to 4 link with c/o's in the front. Completely happy with how my suspension does now, although I still have some fine tuning to do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TacomaJD, post: 406497, member: 1780"] [b]Re: Re: Re:[/b] I assume not, as when I asked what the valving was, he told me the numbers that were engraved on the shocks from the factory. However, I went to pick them up from him when he was at Pete Deck's (Dirty South Motorsports, who built the Ford buggy and done all the mods/tuning on it) and Pete mentioned that they played with the oil levels. He never said anything about valving. When he was ready to sell, he had 2 bent ones and 2 straight ones. I said I wanted the two straight ones, because at the time I was not confident in my ability to tear the shock apart and replace the bent shaft. Turns out the straight ones were from different ends of the buggy. One was black top, and one was the previous blue top. One was valved 40/90, the other was valved 40/80. The one that was on the front had more N20 in it to support engine weight, but after burping it out enough to feel close to the other one and sit level side to side, they worked awesome and I could/can not tell a difference in the valving. HUGE improvement in body roll over the 18" 2.0's that were on it that were valved 30/90. Of course body roll was ridded completely when I got rid of the leafs and went to 4 link with c/o's in the front. Completely happy with how my suspension does now, although I still have some fine tuning to do. [/QUOTE]
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