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can a rear shock handle a side load due to a slightly crooked spring?
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[QUOTE="motometal, post: 655434, member: 24727"] Why am I asking this? Well, springs aren't perfect, and i'm sure there's a bit of uneven pressure on every shock spring made. As an experiment, I stiffened a spring by heating up and collapsing one turn of the spring. I measured first to make sure there's no chance of coil bind. It actually seemed to work pretty slick, and according to sag measurements I ended up with exactly the spring rate I wanted. The ends of the spring apear fairly parallel, but i'm sure not perfect. Looking at the shock, there is a bit more spring clearance on one side than there is on the other side. It's a great feeling to do a mod that works, just for the cost of the torch gas, as opposed to bolting on someone else's creation. But, I don't want to wear out an expensive shock! As a contrast, forks have a huge amount of side load on them due to the rake of the forks... What do you think??? Cool mod, or impending doom for the shock? [/QUOTE]
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