badmix
1/2 ton status
Mine is looking pretty grungy so I took it off to clean it up. I can collapse it with some effort but it stays in this position. Should it rebound like a regular shock absorber or is it made to have resistance both directions?
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should i be able to collapse a steering stabilizer??
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A stabilizer should have the same amount of resistance in both directions and does not act like a shock with "rebound".
badmix
1/2 ton status
Ok, thanks for the quick response..it has resistance both ways.
I would think it would have less in one direction then the other since there is less surface area in one direction.
The fluid flows from one side of the piston to the other through a calibrated orifice with a check valve. When it comes time for the fluid to go the other way, that check valve closes, and another opens on another orifice.
The two orifices are different sizes to allow for the difference in surface area of the piston with the shaft and without the shaft........................................................
OK, I am pretty much talking out my butt here, because I have no idea. That is the way I would do it, and that idea came from somewhere.
I remember years and years ago, Monroe, and a couple of other shock companies were trying to capture the stabilizer market and they were running ads showing cutaways of theirs.
And I vaguely remember some kind of compensating system that ensured that you had equal dampening in both directions.
Who knows that might have been the way..
badmix
1/2 ton status
Well for what its worth mine is made by RANCHO.
Monroe = Rancho. Both part of Tenneco. Most of the generic lift shocks are actually made by the them.
