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Originally Posted by phunt
The spring shown is not a tender. It is a 200lb spring used for dual rate purposes. The main spring is a 250lb spring. That is the 8” one. Clint Smith is the one who suggested it and sold it to me. I do have a tender as well but it is not installed.
Bill if you need measurements I will be happy to take them.
I do not know if they are B8 or B6 and frankly I don’t know what that means. The shocks are Bilstein lrevalved by Clint. they were not done correctly. I had to send them and the rears out to get fixed. But non of that matters. Again it just does not seam right when there is that little available travel
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Not sure what the advantage of that is unless the actual spring desired isn't available
That's a dual spring setup, as opposed to a dual rate spring setup. They are not the same thing
Your spring setup acts a single rate spring which is less than either of the component springs, What you say???, That doesn't make sense! But it does because each spring
is in a say 1" compression only moves part of that 1" the 200 moves a bit further than the 250, But the important thing is neither moves the full 1"
the formula is
effective rate = (TS * BS)/(TS +BS)
the result is 111.1 lb/in for your 200 lb/in + 250 lb/in
just as a comparison a stock 18.8mm fron t-bar wheel rate is 137 lb/in, the actual t-bar rate is 170 lb/in