Stock springs stiffnes

[Yonic]

Hello,

My Deadbolt came with yellow springs in the front and white for the rear. I question this as when articulating only the rear compress and after the rear goes through all the compression travel, only then the front starts to compress.

Is it desirable? why did Axial setup it this way?

I moved to a little softer springs for the front (Green) but while the situation is better, the rear still goes through the travel much sooner than the front, I'm now thinking of trying putting white in the front to make them comparable, thinking it may be better to have both the rear and the front compress together.

What do you think?

[Jboucher]

The front has to be harder than the rear. If the front compress too fast, you will do a front flip while moving down slopes.

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[nightcrawler48]

Originally Posted by Jboucher

The front has to be harder than the rear. If the front compress too fast, you will do a front flip while moving down slopes.

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Hmmmm . . . . . I always thought the rear springs should be stiffer than the front - prevents the rear from compressing when climbing and causing back flips. I guess there is a fine line between what works best for up and down. Maybe weighted front changes what I've been doing.

[nersik]

Axial did that because of battery relocation and chassis mounted servo. Most of the weight is shifted forward now. Compare to SCX10 1st generation with same springs front and rear. Plus stock panhard link is hitting axle pumpkin limiting front suspension travel. So yellow front white rear is very reasonable configuration. I ordered softer and stiffer sets of springs with my SCX10 II kit and experimented with all kinds of combinations. Turned out it was a waste of time. Stock setup works better. Probably yellow front green rear gives more balanced suspension, good for trailing and not so good for crawling.

[Big Bill]

The "newer" springs on my Mog seem to be made from very lite material. I honestly didn't realize Axial offered different spring setups, old dogs can learn new tricks I will have to do some more research on this. I wonder if older SCX springs would work on the newer shocks? *EDIT* Are the springs actually painted the colors on the rate chart or do they have just a paint mark, I can only remember kit springs being White and maybe gray. This is my first V.2 SCX, have had a ton of older SCXs Thanks.