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Old May 7th 2008, 12:25
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First Failure...

This morning on my wonderful driveway curb(it's more like a canal) I heard a pop and then my car just felt really low. Got to work, scraping on everything on the way, and found the main shock mount had failed where it welds to the tubing. The original design had a buttress here, but it was changed as part of the area interfered with the shock. Instead of just removing the offending area itthe whole buttress was removed. I thought it looked like a problem point, and sure enough it is. So, I'll probably just bandage it up and ad it to the "to change" list! This is a prime examply on why I havn't sold this suspension to anyone, R&D is an important part of equipment development. I'll get a pic of the actual break later.



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