T 2 with Fox shocks

[brostar]

Lenny, what you say is true concerning the tongue weight and I have seen the result of not getting it right. About 20 years ago I did a bit of competition rally driving with a mate of mine who had a very fast Mk1 Escort (English Ford Escort) but was a hopeless driver. He was always crashing and on this occasion we rolled about four times and landed on our feet again. Anyway to cut the drama short we winched the car on the trailer and started tying it down when I noticed the thing was to much on one side and not far enough forward. My mate was that p***** off he wouldn't listen to me and said he would leave it like that and just go the 90k/m (50 miles) trip back slowly. As I had my wife with me I refused to go back with him and told him he would roll it going down the Bombay Hill heading in to Auckland and that's just what happened. He destroyed the towing vehicle, the rally car and the trailer but my mate and his wife were uninjured with just his pride dented. We saw the whole thing unfold from a car right behind him and in the 10 seconds or so it took from when he lost control he had several near misses that would of ended badly for sure.

Always make sure you get the balance right and with just the right amount of weight on the toe-ball it should behave just how Lenny described above.

Cheers Mike.

[4x4x454]

What do you think about these?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/F-O-A-Coilo...sspagenameZWDVW

[brostar]

My local 4wd spare parts dealer has been talking up F-O-L for some time now. Apparently just as good as Fox even better for a lot less. I've just noticed on his website there are no 2.0s anymore http://www.4wdbits.co.nz/ProductsList.aspx...mp;selection=18. Must be out of stock. Here is a handy F-O-L spring rate calculator http://www.f-o-a.com/calculator.html

Cheers Mike

[showa]

flatbed,

Any updates on your shocks ???

Kurt G

[flatbed]

the last thing i did was change to 400 over 600 on the back, made a big difference for the good. The sway bar i am against for 2 reasons. one is you need to have independent wheel travel for what the trooper does best and that is climbing, the other thing is these cars do not need any more weight. Putting the 400s in back took away alot of the car wanting to slide and catch while turning fast. There has also been some talk on toe in or out, remember when you are turning the inside tire is always turning tighter. I have found that i like my car with a little toe out, it seems to make the front tires bite better while turning, i know car manufacters set there cars with toe in because it causes the cars to push in a turn, they do not like a car that the back will spin first. I have always set my toe by using two strait edges against the tires 6" up on the side wall.

[Guest Lenny]

I have a question for those shock gerus out there that know more then I do about the subject. Opps, thats almost everyone. I'm beginning to tune my fox shocks. Flatbed has pretty well guided me to my current point and it's really nice, but it does need tuning. He can't easily guide me through that part unless he could actually drive my Trooper. So I've got to learn some things myself.

I can change the dampening for compression and rebound but I can't change the high speed compression, for example, and the low speed compression differently on the same shock. At least not that I know of. What I want to know, is, can I acheive this result buy changing the oil weight? And, if so, how?

Thanks for all the help everybody has given already.

Lenny

[rocmoc]

Flatbed will correct me if I am wrong but the new shocks performance is changed by changing the valving, not the oil. Old school we changed the oil but this new shock is all in the valving!

rocmoc n AZ/Mexico

[flatbed]

use the same shock oil, it is all in the valving, changing the oil changes every function of the shock, by changing valving you can change rate on just one part of the shock.