Top hole no preload with small air gap on bar supposed to be hardest hitting
Lower bar will soften hit

Caltrac manual states this with more detail

 

I never got a caltrac manual with mine.

Also the yb thread states that more preload is a harder hit

 

Well actually Corey added the 'nonsense', but realistically, it was just him adding some comedy to your already comical failure. A theory is only acceptable if you can demonstrate its validity with reason or an experiment. I'm not entirely sure what watching a go-pro video would prove beyond the anecdotal. Regardless, what I said still stands true; a shock absorber will dampen system response time no matter if its in compression or tension. This is the simple physical nature of a damper. Maybe you'd care to explain to the viewers what the geometry has to do with it...because this topic certainly has nothing to do with the direction in which the damper is displaced.

 

Visit caltrac site the manual is there

 

When is more hit indicated

 

When a shock is only stiffening compression and not extension like most singles do then youll have a variance with shocks facing different directions

Factory does this on some trucks to help but thats for stock form, now in racing standing them up allows rhem to work the same and allow for better control over axle

 

Yes. Because of the geometry. Not the damper. The devil is in the details, as they say.

 

I was just trying to be one of the cool people who read something somewhere and references it.

 

The only way to truly change ic is with the front spring eye either being lowered or raised. The rear eye may effect it but only really at neutral since everything will move and change when the spring arches and changes. The shocks are there to more finely control the movements that are going on. So you can have more control over the movement letting the chassis. I'm goin to pull the front end apart and check spring rates. I may switch to a softer longer spring that has more stored energy and look into a double adjustable shock. I'm seriously considering ladder baring the truck and moving weight around. So I can get better control of it and putting a bigger wheel and tire under it and just leave it parked till I'm done lol

 

question was not answered, does this truck still have stock shock mount locations?