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DRR Top Comp |
Afco big gun have a gas bladder, they're gas emulsion. Last set I had here one had leaked the gas out, one shaft returned on it's own to fully extended when compressed, the other didn't. Did you pull the springs off yours and check this, when you switched them side to side? Could be the damper going away, not the track. I heard people say the track went away a lot, and I never noticed any differences in the track. The gas is there to backup the oil. | |||
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DRR Top Comp |
A damper that repeats rearranges the energy created through the suspension into heat in the oil, the same every round. I had one guy who crushed 4 $400 oil pans doing rear bumper ripping wheel stands on his third pass, every time he went to the track. He thought it was happening because the track was coming around, when the sun went down. I bolted a set of real dampers on the back of this car and he was able ramp the nitrous progressor to 100% a half second sooner after TB release. Never wheel stood again. | |||
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DRR Sportsman |
actually I removed the springs...lol. I can't ever remember any gas return when compressed, not even when new. part number 3850BG | |||
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DRR Top Comp |
I'd call em and say hey, are these BG's I have, supposed to be gas emulsion? The gas must've leaked out before I got em. The set I had here were new as well. One like I said, was good. The shaft returned to fully extended when compressed. That's how you do a rudimentary test on a gas emulsion damper, to see if the gas has leaked out. | |||
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DRR Sportsman |
I can tell you one thing, the difference in bump and rebound setting are night and day. Rebound from loose to tight are extreme. However the compression settings almost change nothing, or very little when bench testing. I even went so far to go to the hot rod store and get a new set off the shelve. They were the same feel on compression. By the way, I don't recall new shocks tied together to keep them compressed.???? | |||
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DRR Top Comp |
I'm definitely not trying to tell you what you have, I'm trying to help you to figure out what you have!! If it's a gas emulsion, like the BG's I've had here, I'd want the gas in em, if I were you. Maybe there's a BG option not gas emulsion, I dunno. I'd find out if I were you though. That would be my suggestion. If I were you I'd be searching that part #. I think you could find some good use for some digressive valving on rebound as well, the BG's I had here, were as you've described on the bench. But that's just BG valving. | |||
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DRR Top Comp |
Gas emulsion is a bonus selling point, it's a higher end damper. If all the other BG part numbers mention they're gas emulsion, and your part# doesn't, that's a real strong indicator yours are not gas emulsion. Then I'd verify it with Afco Monday morning. That would be my suggestion. | |||
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DRR Top Comp |
DLR, this is the only part # I could for a BG gas emulsion damper. | |||
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