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Fox air shocks
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 3:53 pm
by Slunnie
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?
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 5:00 pm
by MY45
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
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 5:16 pm
by MARKx4
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.
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 5:28 pm
by RB zook
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
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 8:46 pm
by -Mandy-
If they are not set perfectly they will not perform to the standards they should, Rod's are set and they work really well.
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 8:56 pm
by DFND90
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
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..
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 9:07 pm
by mudtoy
Sean at ABT 4x4 is the Aus distributor for them...very knoledgable...check out
www.abt4x4.com.au
Re: Fox air shocks
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 9:45 pm
by RUFF
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.
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 9:46 pm
by RUFF
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.
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 10:09 pm
by antt
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?
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 10:22 pm
by RUFF
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.
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 10:28 pm
by antt
ok, cheers
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 11:53 am
by Slunnie
Good stuff, thanks for this Ruff, sounds like the way forward.
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 2:22 pm
by grimbo
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?