Respringing Elka shocks

[sredish]

Haven't messed with shocks too much, other than installing and such. Eric @ Elka told me I could go to a +2 without a revalve, just a respring, which he said is a 5 minute job. Any input on this and the process of respringing?

[DUNEDEMON]

Piece of cake....Do you know your current rates? Did he suggest any new rates?

[checkster]

I made my own spring compressor. Took ah hour, cost nothing(scrap) and works like a charm.

 

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[sredish]

Piece of cake....Do you know your current rates?  Did he suggest any new rates?

Nah, I don't know my rates off hand. I'm going to look at the aarms this evening. If I get them, I was going to call him back with my serial # and he'll pull the info for me. I almost pm'ed you. demon, whaddya think about just respringing, think that's enough to do it? You guys make their springs, right?

 

Pretty nice little deal you got there checkster. You oughta market that.

Edited August 25, 2004 by sredish

[DUNEDEMON]

Sredish, they may be buying springs from us - not sure to tell you the truth. If the guys at Elka said you could get away with only a re-spring then you should be good to go. Verify the dimensions of the springs I would guess they are 1.88" ID, freelength (un-loaded length of the spring) and rate that you need, also see if they want you to change all the springs or just the "main" springs. Let me know

[checkster]

Thanks, if you're going to make one and need any dimensions let me know.

 

PS I have two Eibach springs with 3 rides on them, like new shape, 200 ft/lbs rate.

[sredish]

Just picked the a-arms up. Lonestar +2+1 chrome race arms, camber and caster adj., with reamed spindles and chrome tie rods. 5 bones, and look like they've never been touched.