Corvette: Suspension Curiosity on '69 vette

"Charles Halliman" <net> wrote in message
news:net... 

No, any independent mounted wheel will do that, try the same thing on the
back. It will resist assuming its normal ride height because the tire can
not slide sideways when you let it down onto the ground. Driving it allows
it to assume it natural height.

The shocks will effect the bottoming out that you were talking about and
should not effect the height.

--
Dad
98 C5 Black/Black/Auto
72 Shark Black/Black/4spd

Odds are the shocks are not the problem here, but instead the
suspension geometry being "stuck" an inch high when you let the tire
down to rest on the ground - friction between the tire and the ground
prevent it from moving as far out as it needs to set up correctly.
Driving the car allows the tire to move out and assume it's natural
position. You can see this when you lift the tire off the ground - it
doesn't come up in a straight plane, but droops down with the outside
edge closer to the ground. When you let it down, that outside edge
catches first, causing the temporary problem.

The shocks -might- cause the problem if they're defective and not
allowing the piston inside to travel quickly enough to compress
normally, but the odds of that are pretty slim.

If you have high-performace shocks, like Ohlins or some others that
let you set rebound and compression damping individually, the settings
might be too harsh, again preventing the shock from returning to the
neutral state quickly enough. Again, pretty slim odds. Motorcycles
are much more likely to have those kinds of problems - saw one bike
that had the rebound damping set waaaay to high. Push down on the
seat to compress the spring, and the bike sloooowly came back up like
it had molasses in the shock. Not good.


On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 09:07:52 -0700, Charles Halliman
<net> wrote: