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Shock Absorber Discussion

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Subject: Shock Absorber Discussion
From: michael lunsford <mblunsfordsr@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 05:48:02 -0700 (PDT)
I sent my lever shocks off for a rebuild (don't recall where but think it was 
TRF) and got an exchange set of beat up shocks that didn't work any better than 
the ones that I sent out.  I must say however that the old ones may have been 
working properly I just wanted everything rebuilt when I did my frame off 
restoration and also thought a rebuild might help the twitch I got from second 
to third when under power.  There was no change in the twitch so I switched to 
the tube shocks.  The tube shocks gave me about a 70% improvement in the 
"twitch" but didn't eleminate it completely.  For me the tube shocks perform 
better than the lever shocks did however I use my 6 primarily as a road car and 
not for racing.  From past discussions on the net I suspect you would need to 
reenforce the mounting points for the tube shocks for hard use.  My 
recommendation would be to buy the tube shock conversion rather than pay for a 
rebuild of the lever shocks.  I think I heard that BPNW has the best price
 for the conversion.  Anybody interested in a set of rebuilt lever shocks?
 
Mike Lunsford, 1970 TR 6 


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