Fox air shocks

Post by **Slunnie** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 3:53 pm

Ruff, what was your general impression of the Fox air shock setup over normal coil/shock setups in the truck?

Are these something that work well on the buggys also?

Post by **MY45** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 5:00 pm

Simon these things were made for buggies, and are quick and easy to adjust from what ive heard. If your after more info on them have a search on pirate as they have been running them for far longer in the US then here in Aus.

Hope your not thinking of putting them on the old landie :twisted:

Post by **MARKx4** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 5:16 pm

MY45 wrote:Hope your not thinking of putting them on the old landie

Why not they had it a old landie at tt and seemed ok.

Post by **RB zook** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 5:28 pm

watching gonads zook

is seemed to work well balenced thou

when he turned the steering going up the rocky horror at the 80 point mark seemed to unload

Post by **-Mandy-** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 8:46 pm

If they are not set perfectly they will not perform to the standards they should, Rod's are set and they work really well.

Post by **DFND90** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 8:56 pm

I have never seen them on a rig before ttc and checked them out on the lockless. They looked very cool as the whole area is cleaned up so much without coils in the way, even all the spring perches were cut off
:armsup:

Im even considering a buggy now after my first taste of watching a comp, i think i would run thes for sure. I hear theyre 500 bucks each though..

Post by **mudtoy** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 9:07 pm

Sean at ABT 4x4 is the Aus distributor for them...very knoledgable...check out www.abt4x4.com.au

Post by **RUFF** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 9:45 pm

Slunnie wrote:Ruff, what was your general impression of the Fox air shock setup over normal coil/shock setups in the truck?

Are these something that work well on the buggys also?

They were great. They still need some fine tunning as was shown on the Flex ramp. It Squared up on the front axle. They have so many advantages over Conventional springs as they can be adjusted for almost any style of driving from Crawling to High speed and they are so much lighter. They just take some time to set up right. I bought a set for my Buggy a few months ago but hadn't got around to fitting them as i was happy with the performance of the coils and shocks but after driving this i found no disadvantages so will be setting them up in my buggy for the next round of WeRock.

Post by **RUFF** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 9:46 pm

mudtoy wrote:Sean at ABT 4x4 is the Aus distributor for them...very knoledgable...check out www.abt4x4.com.au

We also buy all ours through sean at ABT.

Post by **antt** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 10:09 pm

tony, how do u like the extra link setup on the front? it looked to flex well. did u have both back bolts undone on the radius arms?

Post by **RUFF** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 10:22 pm

antt wrote:tony, how do u like the extra link setup on the front? it looked to flex well. did u have both back bolts undone on the radius arms?

The link set up in the front is the same in my buggy. We actually ended up with the Radius arms modified and they are now cut off after the rear bolt. We had oil filter to Pinion clearence problems so had to rotate the pinion lower so the Radius arms would no longer fit.

Post by **antt** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 10:28 pm

ok, cheers

Post by **Slunnie** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 11:53 am

Good stuff, thanks for this Ruff, sounds like the way forward.

Post by **grimbo** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 2:22 pm

How hard are they to setup correctly for a light vehicle? I have read about them here and on piratte and the info is alittle conflicting. Some say easy some say hard and this is evenly split between people with and without experience in these sort o things.

Is there an easy formual to dial them in or is trial and error?

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