Current setup 10-28-00 Front C/D #40 R/D #90 Added 1 extra 1.400x.012 shim to the rebound stack. #150 of pressure. Added 35cc of oil under the piston using 15 weight oil. Rear C/D #40 R/D #90 Added 1 extra 1.400x.010 shim to rebound stack. #110 of pressure. Added 40cc of oil under piston using 15 weight oil. Other information Front reservoirs 1.720 ID 5.56" long, With 1" of oil in the reservoir shock extended, shock full closed the oil level will raise to 3" 30cc = 1" of oil in the reservoir. Rear reservoirs 1.720 ID 7" long If oil is added to the top of the piston it will take 15cc of oil to fill the cavity on top of the piston and make it flat inside the reservoir. Replaced 3 of the 4 top out springs, 3 were broke, I figure not having enough rebound dampening allowed the top out springs to go into coil bind each time the tires came off the ground.
22 Nov 2008 Well I keep losing my notes from my shock work so I decided to update this whilst I still have the info fresh, this time I wrote the notes on the hood with a marker and took pics, the idea is I wont clean the marker off the hood until I document it here, no more "I will do it later" the lose the paper I wrote the info on haha Ok rant over, while adding the YODA arms I decided I would also increase the size of the hoses going to the reservoirs I wanted to do this on day one but never did, I used the hoses that came with my first set of reservoirs you know the deal why do the mod when these work, I sent one of my shocks to Stoneman for mockup when YODA was developing his +2" arm kits for the Pilot, during the return shipping from Stoneman UPS mutts crushed the box and snapped the hose, yeah, oil every place, so NOW is a good time to upgrade the hoses. To update them I had to weld on 1/4 " ID pipe thread elbows to the tops of the shocks then drill and tap the bottom end cap of the reservoirs to 1/4 " pipe thread this allows me to use hydraulic hoses from a local industrial supplier. OK now you know why I am making changes so here is the info, as found oil level on the top side of the divider piston was about 1/8" covering the top of the cavity on the top of the piston, the shocks would bottom easy with 200 psi before adding oil, adding 60cc oil helped but you could still bottom the shock so I added another 30cc for a total of +90cc oil to the rez above the divider piston, 90cc is almost too much, when trying to bottom the front suspension you still have about 1/2 to 5/8" chrome showing on the shock shaft, my gut feeling while jumping on the front bumper in the shop is the compression ratio is not right I bet I end up removing 10 to 15 cc if oil and having 160 to 165 psi
Notes from Cowboy 10/14/2003 If you order a 10 a 30 a 50 a 70 a 90 you will have all the shims to create any stack for 1 shock. If you think you'll be between a 50 and a 70 just buy those stacks and you'll be able to adjust anywhere in between.This is per shock, rebound and compression. In the rear I'm running 65 rebound wit 4 .078 bypass holes and it isn't enough rebound. Hoser's recommendation of 90 is probably real close. I'm running 2 stacks for compression first shim is a 1.6x.008 then a .9x.008 then a regular 20 stack. In front I have a 35 rebound with stock bleeds which is pretty good. For comp I have another dual stack 1.6x.012, 1.425x.012,.900x.008 and then a 50 stack. The dual stacks work nice because there is very little low speed dampening so when you land on all 4 wheels at the same time it's not too harsh. The high speed part of the stack will soak up a 1 wheel landing and keep you from bottoming that corner. If you get your air pressure and compression ratio right you don't need alot of comp. dampening. Since you don't have reservoirs it might be a little tough figuring your comp ratio. I'd be happy to help or answer questions.
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