Date:         Tue, 30 Jun 1998 16:08:01 -0700
Reply-To:     Alistair Bell <albell@UVIC.CA>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <Vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Alistair Bell <albell@UVIC.CA>
Subject:      Re: Pre-loading Rear Suspension :ayee!
Comments: To: "Steven X. Schwenk" <sxs@schwenk-law.com>, Vanagon@vanagon.com
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>
> Last comment.  There is another limitation...the length of the spring
perches.
>If the spring is longer than the spring perches, obviously, you have to
compress
>it to make it fit even when no weight on the van.  Same principal applies
even if
>you don't have to compress the spring, but you do shorten the distance
between the
>spring perches.  With the shorter distance (i.e. by adding a spacer to
loiwer the
>top perch), at any given point in the suspension travel, the spring will be
more
>compressed than without the spacer.
>

last last comment *s*

you're right if you are pushing against a fixed object, but you're not. If
the spring can lift the van without the spacer, it certainly can do it
equally with the spacer - the van simply rides higher (until you add enough
spacers to bottom out the suspension).

Alistair