The Roadie wrote:
I certainly don't like the way they make coilovers for the REAR that use the stock shock mounts, and not the spring perches. I had a long knock down drag out fight with Tony of tbssowners.com over that idiotic concept.
JamesDowning wrote:I thought that I proved the stresses weren't that much greater... greater, yes, but not as much as I would have thought. Only 1.5x or so, which is probably well within the design FS.
JamesDowning wrote:I guess the interesting thing to me, was that an impulse load on a shock is nearly that of the constant load on the spring. It was all a SWAG, but it showed me that it was much more realistic than I imagined.
However, I don't like the idea of putting all of your rear vehicle weight in shear of a bolt. No safety element if it fails other than the bump stop.
JamesDowning wrote:However, I don't like the idea of putting all of your rear vehicle weight in shear of a bolt. No safety element if it fails other than the bump stop.
OregTrailBlazin wrote:JamesDowning wrote:However, I don't like the idea of putting all of your rear vehicle weight in shear of a bolt. No safety element if it fails other than the bump stop.
No different than the front end of the Tacoma's, or ours for that matter, it all has one bolt in shear.... Although they are allot larger!!