BRE Fabrications LTD
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So far the shocks are good. The truck has remarkably little body roll considering I have removed the front sway bar. My only complaint is that small bumps tend to be a bit harsh.
I have now set myself up so I can rebuild and recharge these shocks with nitrogen so I am going to be revalving them in the new year by adding in a "flutter" shim and essentially changing the compression shim stacks in the shock to flutter stacks.
The idea behind this is it will allow the initial stroke of the shaft to have less compression damping but as the shaft speed increases the valving goes back to being progressive and proportional to the shaft speed.
I have been reading up a fair bit on shock valving and it gets fairly technical so I can post up in detail what I have learnt and how the valving works if folk are interested.
I have heard rumours I'll be getting a GoPro for Christmas so what I want to do is film the shock working prior to the revavle and again afterwards and compare the differences. It should make for some interesting tinkering.
Initial compression available prior to installing the spacers was 90mm & 100mm at the rear wheels and a bit more at the front. The exact figures are posted earlier in the thread.
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I have now set myself up so I can rebuild and recharge these shocks with nitrogen so I am going to be revalving them in the new year by adding in a "flutter" shim and essentially changing the compression shim stacks in the shock to flutter stacks.
The idea behind this is it will allow the initial stroke of the shaft to have less compression damping but as the shaft speed increases the valving goes back to being progressive and proportional to the shaft speed.
I have been reading up a fair bit on shock valving and it gets fairly technical so I can post up in detail what I have learnt and how the valving works if folk are interested.
I have heard rumours I'll be getting a GoPro for Christmas so what I want to do is film the shock working prior to the revavle and again afterwards and compare the differences. It should make for some interesting tinkering.
Initial compression available prior to installing the spacers was 90mm & 100mm at the rear wheels and a bit more at the front. The exact figures are posted earlier in the thread.
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