Got my car with a basic setup now, when I set a front chassis hieght of 4.5" on full droop the spring in the shock just starts to free itself.

What have people done to restrict the full droop distance, mines got loads of travel so I,m thinking rubber block on the chassis rail under the wishbone at present.

Regards Mark

It sounds like your springs are too short!
You can jack my wheels off the floor (via the chassis) and my springs never come loose

tricky one. I would tighten it slightly to stop it being loose at droop and see if ride height settles back over a few miles. If not, i would get springs half an inch longer (though right now i cant actually work out if that would work!)

could use a very light helper spring which is designed to keep some weight on that corner at full drop, spring lengths and rates are a compromise that means there are a number of different ways around problems.

Helper springs are designed to fully compress (go coil bound) when the weight is on the suspension so they don't really affect your spring rate. Or if possible try a longer spring. Just make sure it won't go coil bound at the other extreme of travel.

Hi the helper springs you are after can be seen HERE View larger image and they are the small flat red one wich can be brought seperatly.

These go under your existing spring to hold the spring and top collar in place on full droop.

Or as said fit 1" longer springs.

cheers matt

£1,125.00(exc VAT) for spring/shock set, if thats not paying for the name.....

It was much easier with my Landrover, just had a couple of chains to stop the axle falling off !

If I go for 5" ride at the front its not a problem so in true locost fashion I,ll play around with the problem before launching out and spending money

Thanks for the replies, regards Mark

Honestly you can buy the little red springs for £3 each from somee suppliers .

cheers matt

I've seen a few racers with a couple of holes drilled in the "top hat" and ties clips around the top of the spring holding it all together on full droop.

Pat...

For best ish results set front ride height so that the outer bottom ball joint centre and the inner pivot bolt centre are level ish up or down 5mm ish is acceptable.

cheers matt ish

How would longer springs help ???

The only way they would is if the lower spinning collar was right at the bottom and spring all the way to the top.

Pat...

I do not think longer springs will help either, as the turret will be wound down further, softer springs would.

The helper springs are really soft so take up the slack but if I reduce the droop then I will not need to spend any money. As the arms do not bind at any point the droop is restricted by the rear bottom bone hitting.