It normally isn't a problem if the shock top out. Most shocks have an
internal
hard rubber stop to handle this.
The real problem happens if the shock does bottom out, it can cause damage
to
disc valve (which is at the bottom of the shock and can hit the casing, thus
causing
damage).
This info is coutesy of the Koni tech folk here.
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Watsons Creek Vineyard http://www.vicnet.net.au/~mikeg
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Edmonds <edmondsm@concentric.net>
To: Robert Allen <boballen@sky.net>; Bill Eastman
<william.eastman@medtronic.com>
Cc: MG Discussion List <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, January 09, 1998 10:30 AM
Subject: Re: Shocks as travel stops
>I may be wrong about this, but I thought that with many systems,
>especially those using coil springs rather than leaf springs, that the
>tube shock was the suspension travel stop. As I recall, the Ford Fairmont
>used coil springs and tube shocks in the rear (it was not a MacPherson
>strut), and didn't have anything else (other than the shock) to act a
>suspension travel stop.
>
>Maybe my memory is going . . .
>
>Thanks.
>
>>Bill Eastman wrote:
>>
>>> Telescopic shocks are the travel stop on virtualy every leaf spring
solid
>>> axle car made in America.
>>
>>I didn't really hold much interest in this thread until I saw the
opportunity
>>to disagree with Eastman. Awhile back on the Triumph List (or so I've
heard)
>>there was a great amount of clamoring, preaching and breast beating about
>>tube
>>shock conversions for the TR6.
>>
>>The pursits check in that, with the lever shock arrangement, there is a
clear
>>bump stop for the suspension (over) travel. Converting to tube shocks
would
>>eliminate this and, therefore, be a bad thing.
>>
>>As for Mr. Eastman's observation, I have changed a few shocks on leaf
spring
>>cars and I have never had any problem with the rear suspension dropping
any
>>more when the shocks were removed. I, therefore, conclude that the leaf
>>spring
>>arrangment some how limits the full rebound direction of suspension
travel. I
>>believe it does this through its mounting to the car at each end of the
>>spring.
>>
>>PS: Say, Bill, did you sell another one of those neck-splinting torture
>>systems
>>to that football player?
>>--
>>Bob Allen, Kansas City, '69CGT, '75TR6, '61Elva(?)
>>"An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to
the
>>grand fallacy."
>>
>>
>
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