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Originally posted by Tom Reyer:
No front end travel, 2" maybe. How tight are the front shocks? Hard to make the back end work of the front end is fighting it.

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Originally posted by CURTIS REED:

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Originally posted by Tom Reyer:
No front end travel, 2" maybe. How tight are the front shocks? Hard to make the back end work of the front end is fighting it.

Tom, like many chassis cars it probably doesn't have a lot of shock travel up front. The shocks I believe were set mid way on the extension settings. I am just beginning to help him with this truck so I will be doing some checking on things.

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Originally posted by HR3377:
Have you tried going up on air pressure, My Dad has a high 6 teen to mid 6.2x S-10 with almost no front travel 1" or less with ladder bars, can't say where what hole they are in as its in Florida now, but the tach replays great and will repeat 60's like mad with single adj on rear. He runs 11.5-12psi on a 29-10.5W.

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Originally posted by Mike Rietow:
At the "hit" it's bouncing? What fundamentally could cause it to bounce at the hit? When fundamentally at the hit the tire is being planted. I could see it planting the tire too hard crushing the sidewall. That would be shaking the tire as a result of flattening it and getting too much traction as the shaft in the main body of the shock changes direction. I don't think what you're describing is shake though.I think what you're describing calls for the pickup point to be raised. Then tighten the single adjustable you have in play,up. Because the fundamental is, if you tighten damping and it doesn't respond positively, says the pickup point is too low.

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Originally posted by RacerVX54:
Front end is wayyyy to tight to start with. I don't care what shock you put on the back until you loosen the front up its pissing in the wind

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Originally posted by nomad:

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Originally posted by Mike Rietow:
At the "hit" it's bouncing? What fundamentally could cause it to bounce at the hit? When fundamentally at the hit the tire is being planted. I could see it planting the tire too hard crushing the sidewall. That would be shaking the tire as a result of flattening it and getting too much traction as the shaft in the main body of the shock changes direction. I don't think what you're describing is shake though.I think what you're describing calls for the pickup point to be raised. Then tighten the single adjustable you have in play,up. Because the fundamental is, if you tighten damping and it doesn't respond positively, says the pickup point is too low.

Mike is right. The ladder bar needs to be raised. My ride is a ladder bar car that runs 5.60s. It was doing just what the vid shows.
What helped was raising the ladder bar one hole and working the front shocks first, then I worked the rear. Then I raised the rear tire pressure. Problem solved.

Tim McAmis has a four segment video on shocks. I must have watched that ten times. Watch them you'll learn a lot.