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Originally Posted by jrandom
You just confirmed what he stated "Don't go crazy with the preload". You think what you are seeing is misinformation (I don't disagreee there are misinformed people, not as much as you think), when in fact, crazy preload is what a lot of people do here. Resulting in a harsher ride.
What you were saying mechanically doesn't makes much sense, if you compress spring and it needs to absorb upstroke, particularly with modern springs that have different rates of absorption through the stroke, you are lessening smooth dampening by limiting up travel, simple physics. The longer something has to slow down the less harsh the curve.
From the same site you quote earlier:
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I'm sorry, but this exactly the kind of misinformation I was referring to.
Adding more preload does not change the compressed length(or load) of the spring at ride height. It simply changes the overall length of the shock at ride height. And it certainly does not change anything about how much spring travel is available to absorb bumps. In fact, since you raise the vehicle higher, there's more up travel available in the shock. You will not run into issues running out of spring compression on any 600# spring on a Icon/Fox/King shock no matter how heavy of a bumper or how many accessories you have unless you somehow add around 1000 lbs of additional weight. Will you get a lot of dive or body roll if you're too heavy? Yes. Will the ride be too stiff and harsh? Definitely not unless you don't have enough damping to stop your suspension from bottoming out.
The only exception to this is if you add enough preload that the weight of the vehicle is not able to compress the shock at all off it's fully extended length. In this case you have more preload in the spring than the weight of the front of your vehicle.
EDIT: Guess you deleted your post...
