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02-15-2009, 07:05 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: spring hill TN
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|  Ride height
I have been playing with ride height some lets hear what some of you guys are running? Are you running in droop with your sprung rigs or adding pre-load to take all the droop out? |
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02-15-2009, 07:12 PM
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| 20K Club   Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Sending illegals home one Hayabusa at a time.
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3" here, running pre-load to take about 90% of the droop out of it.
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02-15-2009, 07:28 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: May 2008 Location: united states
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3.35" running full sprung
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02-15-2009, 07:46 PM
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| Old guy   Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Northwest Arkie-saw and we got ROCKS!
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Spung with 2 7/8 ride height, and a little droop 3 1/4 I think. What about you Champ. |
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02-15-2009, 08:06 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Calgary
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I'm running Sprung at about 2 3/8". This is on a KK 4.0 chassis with my threaded shock collar threaded all the way up. The shocks don't really like to move from there and I can spin the collars about 1/2" down from there before the truck starts moving. Around here, that's about right. Even a little on the high side for some guys, but personally, I can't seem to go any lower, by choice or otherwise. |
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02-15-2009, 08:06 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: spring hill TN
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I have been trying to run down around 2 5/8 and drooping out to about 2 7/8. I really like how it feels untill it comes time to bounce a leadge  I raised it up this eve to 2 7/8 drooping out to 3 3/16 but was not sure if this would be to much I have never run over 3 inches. | |
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02-15-2009, 08:31 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Arat Alabama
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Joe, glad you brought this up. After a dismal day at LRC yesterday I've been fooling w/shock set-ups since midnight(yesterday). Learned alot by studying(covertly ) Rockcrawlers rig. How it rolls, transfers weight, and just overall balance. His is a very smooth rig, almost slinky-ish. I've about gotten where I feel mine is close to that(just gotta learn to drive it  ).As for as droop, I'm at 2 3/4" and will come to @3 1/16" on a super soft set-up. After using 4 wheel scales to move some weight around my little rig so much better. Almost a new rig .
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02-15-2009, 08:46 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: spring hill TN
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Playing around this eve I have noticed with the way I have my links setup.That there is almost no wheelbase change between 2.5-3 inches but once you go higher than 3 inches the wheel base starts to shorten.From 3-3 1/4 i get 1/8 of wheel base change. I am not sure if this will be enough to cause problems?I may just need to lower it back down to 2 3/4 and let it droop to 3 inches. For some reason I just caint find where I want this thing to be. I am half tempted to set it at 2.5 and have a belly drager and let it drop out to 2.75. I would say it would be crazy stable but leadges would be a pain.Maybe I am just thinking about it to much and need to just learn to drive. |
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02-15-2009, 09:03 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Arat Alabama
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02-15-2009, 09:35 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Hueytown, Alabama
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 You know exactly where mine is. I am going to do a setup sheet tonight.  | |
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02-15-2009, 09:53 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Columbia TN
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02-15-2009, 09:59 PM
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02-15-2009, 09:59 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: spring hill TN
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Or someone got lucky . No really Jeff's rig seemed to work really well with way more ride height that mine. | |
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02-15-2009, 10:02 PM
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02-15-2009, 10:05 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: spring hill TN
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NOt that you got lucky driving( you beat my A$$). That Jeff W. got lucky on getting the half inch of squat/rise with out any WB change. |
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02-15-2009, 10:13 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: I hope you SHUT UP!!!
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I am running at 2 1/4 and drooping out to just over 3" all droop in front with internal springs, and 80% sprung and 20% droop in the rear. so far, I can't complain about this setup, it gave me a 4th place finish last weekend and it was my first comp with a berg rig! and it's still able to climb some insane ledges! |
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02-15-2009, 10:32 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Arat Alabama
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02-15-2009, 11:30 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: da big island, HI
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3" here and full sprung and so far so good
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02-16-2009, 06:37 AM
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| I wanna be Dave  Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Detroit
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Mines always been tall and I've always been razzed about the center clearance. I run 3.25 to 3.375 on average. It worked somewhat decent for me in Pennsylvania...just never tried verting! But mine still verts 63 without issue now that I've changed some weights and messed the the clod stall feature. |
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02-16-2009, 07:09 AM
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| RCC Addict  Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Mount Juliet
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Running at 3 3/16" GC. Bully axles with a KK Zero-T Chassis on Panther Tires.
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