Short spring on long shock?

[Barillms]

Anybody running a droop set up, with a short spring?
A short buggy spring, on SAY... a long Savage shock for example.

The spring will keep the shocks from bottoming, and the rig from dragging while suspending the weight when needed... but will also allow the shock to have a droop effect when extended.

Anyone have pics of this?

 

[yoda316]

might work if you had a internal spring and an external, working against eachother. that way you would have compression and extension both sprung
i think just one short spring on a long shock would casue a lot of torque twist , unless you limited the shock with fuel tubing. but then you wouldnt have the droop that you wanted

 

[crawls2thewalls]

doesn't sound like a good idea..

maybe short internals on top of the piston..

like a spring bump stop..

just a thought..

 

[JohnRobHolmes]

might work if you had a internal spring and an external, working against eachother. that way you would have compression and extension both sprung
i think just one short spring on a long shock would casue a lot of torque twist , unless you limited the shock with fuel tubing. but then you wouldnt have the droop that you wanted

This is a dead on description. I ran a maxx shock on a savage body and got a lot of torque twist since the suspension could unload. It also sucked for climbing. Once I installed internal springs it basically solved the problem, although the torque twist was caused by my link placement too.

 

[Grizzly4x4]

I've done it for years on my Clod axle trucks. It works great I think.

On a shafty rig you'll have to get rid of the torque twist through suspension tuning before it will work very well. But, it can certainly be done, there are many guys who run this on their shafty rigs.

A couple good threads to read.

Anti squat thread

Droop Suspension

50/50 suspension

Another droop thread