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Old 02-21-2018, 11:19 PM   #14
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Re: Mechanical curiosity?

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Originally Posted by CURSED GEARS View Post
That was always my hope. Seems weird to me there is nothing securing springs to the frame other than the weight of the vehicle.
That's true for all stock components. Once you start violating all the work the engineers stayed up late at night making sure a vehicle was safe and driveable, pretty much all bets are off. Not picking on you, per se, but when the stock config is changed, you must be sure that somebody did some engineering for you when you bought the parts. I grew up in the '60s, and you wouldn't believe what people did to lower or raise a vehicle, that got them in big trouble, safety-wise. In the stock case, the spring is held in by the shock at maximum travel.
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