Broken Shocker

[mudnut]

No, the only marks are from the broken pieces.

[BigRAWesty]

The spacer wouldn't make bugger all difference in the grand scheme of things..
Meassure the length you have from shock mount rod to rod, then meassure your bump stop to axle..
Subtract the bump gap from the shock length and that's the fully closed length.
Get a shock 10mm shorter for safety.

[macca]

The spacer wouldn't make bugger all difference in the grand scheme of things..
Meassure the length you have from shock mount rod to rod, then meassure your bump stop to axle..
Subtract the bump gap from the shock length and that's the fully closed length.
Get a shock 10mm shorter for safety.

You have not allowed for the compression of the bump stop, a few tonnes compressing the suspension in a quick movement will compress a 120mm (rear on a leafy ute) bump stop to half that if not less, and that's only guessing.

Any suspension mod that allows the shock to fully close before the suspension does is going to fail, as is the other way if the shock is not long enough for reasonable travel and gets torn apart by over extending.

The Simpson Desert is notorious for destroying suspension because of the extremely rough terrain causing the suspension to travel its full range all the time.

[BigRAWesty]

You have not allowed for the compression of the bump stop, a few tonnes compressing the suspension in a quick movement will compress a 120mm (rear on a leafy ute) bump stop to half that if not less, and that's only guessing.

Any suspension mod that allows the shock to fully close before the suspension does is going to fail, as is the other way if the shock is not long enough for reasonable travel and gets torn apart by over extending.

The Simpson Desert is notorious for destroying suspension because of the extremely rough terrain causing the suspension to travel its full range all the time.

Yea sorry I did mean the base..
But what bump do you guys run in the leaf utes.
Wagon fronts compress about 120mm. The coil rears compres about 30mm I think.m

[macca]

Its a rubber wedge 120mm from the tip to the chassis, fairly solid to take the hits I guess.

Being wedge shaped it would compress progressively, but I'll leave that to smarter minds to explain the science!