And then there's spring diameter, how many coils, if they're a progressive
or standard rate coil...
Wouldn't cut the springs. I talked to Jon Hotchkis on my setup and they do
not recommend cutting them. If you do...go 1/4 coil at a time.
- Bernd
----- Original Message -----
From: <david.clement@verizon.net>
To: <dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 10:05 AM
Subject: Re: DML: Re: Suspension Q's Attn Jason
>
> In article <086101c42d19$0ddf8040$f95f2241@a.tampabay.rr.com>,
> acellan1@tampabay.rr.com ("Tony Cellana") writes:
> >
> >
> > I didn't realize you were doing some sort of class racing. Cutting
springs
> > does NOT change their rate. There is just less of the spring available
for
> > travel.
>
> Absoultly wrong there. Cutting a spring increases the spring rate directly
in
> proportion to the amount of coil removed. A coil spring is nothing more
than a
> curled up torsion bar. That is, as the coil is compressed the wire in the
coil
> is twisting (torsion), the longer the wire in the spring (i.e., the more
coils)
> the more it will twist for a given load (lower spring rate), shorten the
wire
> (i.e., remove a coil) and it twists less for a given load (increased
spring
> rate).
>
> Dave Clement
> 99 SLT+ CC 4x4
>
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