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Shocking News - Shocks collapse after adjusting - Now what?
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<blockquote data-quote="Trikky2" data-source="post: 383724" data-attributes="member: 240"><p>I think I can see what has happened here.</p><p>The bump stops on your beam have been sawn off. Now the suspension has nothing limiting its movement. </p><p>When you adjusted the spring holders on your coil overs upwards and drove over those bumps, the shock absorbers got compressed too far. The coils of the springs got fully compressed and the stress had nowhere to go other than the spring holder cups which, not being designed to act as bump stops, broke.</p><p>Its not the fault of the shock absorbers.</p><p>This is what can happen if the bump stops are removed.</p><p>Even vehicles fitted with ordinary non coil over shocks can suffer problems. In your case the shock broke but I have seen other vehicles where the shock mountings broke.</p><p></p><p>It looks like a previous owner has lowered the suspension too far and then tried to compensate by fitting coil overs to raise the front a bit.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trikky2, post: 383724, member: 240"] I think I can see what has happened here. The bump stops on your beam have been sawn off. Now the suspension has nothing limiting its movement. When you adjusted the spring holders on your coil overs upwards and drove over those bumps, the shock absorbers got compressed too far. The coils of the springs got fully compressed and the stress had nowhere to go other than the spring holder cups which, not being designed to act as bump stops, broke. Its not the fault of the shock absorbers. This is what can happen if the bump stops are removed. Even vehicles fitted with ordinary non coil over shocks can suffer problems. In your case the shock broke but I have seen other vehicles where the shock mountings broke. It looks like a previous owner has lowered the suspension too far and then tried to compensate by fitting coil overs to raise the front a bit. [/QUOTE]
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