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I've only been off road once so far and was too excited to hear anything other than the pounding of my heart.
As for street driving: I have never heard them, but I have worked 40 years in a power plant. Not unusual to be around 90dB to 100dB for a half hour or more.
Setup:
Stage 4+ on Scab with standard National Spring springs.
Corey set the rears for me not carrying much in the bed. (I didn't ask the exact settigs)
For best street ride, Corey said to back off the short compression bypasses two turns (when off road i return them closed two turns)
First, watch this (serious props to my wonderful wife for standing in the dirt letting me roll past and having the wind blast her with dust. Gawd I love that woman)
Notice the difference? When "open" and when that rear gets moving, you can REALLY hear those tappets doing their thing.
There's a bit of history here: a month or two ago I sent a similar video to Corey, who immediately took it to Fox, who immediately shipped me out a new set of shocks because they wanted my old ones (which had 2k miles on them) back, who after getting them back tore them apart, during which they found nothing wrong. The new shocks I put on were dead silent until recently (about 1k miles on them), and which are now doing the same thing as the old shocks did.
The video, taken today, shows the difference between the sound when the shocks are open and actually function, and when they're "locked out" basically amounting to nothing more than a rigid pipe.
PS: For those among us who will drive the ladies around on occasion... I left them locked out as we drove home and JoyJoy commented that if I plan to leave them this way she'll need to start wearing a sports bra since the 'girls' were getting beat up pretty good due to the crazy rough ride. I didn't mind, but she sure seemed too
Now before anyone gets squirly, I wanna make sure to note that this DOES NOT bother me. The benefits of the 3.0s far FAR surpass any potential negative of this characteristic. But on the other hand, this is something to know about them. I thought maybe I was going crazy, but after this second set and this test, I feel comfortable saying this is just part of the package when upgrading to these shocks. It is what it is, and now that I know for sure what 'it' is, I'm perfectly ok with it.
PS: For those among us who will drive the ladies around on occasion... I left them locked out as we drove home and JoyJoy commented that if I plan to leave them this way.....
Oh you think that's bad, He was a chatty cathy at TRR. You best not let him go alone next year, gotta keep that boy in line !
Just messin with ya Big J
Well I put mine on and I didn't hear a thing, but then my little street queen don't see dirt.
One thing I will tell ya is that annoying wheel hop is TOTALLY GONE ! Those National springs are great! I used to take off hard and it would wheel hop, yea even with my little 5.4, But with the National springs NADA. It hooks up ! So fun to drive, like a whole new truck ! I went to my uncles funeral on friday and was "testing" the new setup, so I pulled into the church parking lot shut off the traction nanny and power braked it. Dang ! spun em like a big dog. Ha, yea I know doing burnouts in the church parking lot at my Uncles funeral, he would have thought it was cool.
Corey talk to you about a barstow to da River trip June 29/30 july 1 ?
Nope no word yet on the trip. I've been texting with him about this, and he's asked me to check the nitrogen pressure, which I'll do Monday (tools are at my office and my schedule is packed today). I did offer to drive down and basically toss him the keys, and let him see first hand what's going on, so that might be in the works soon too.
Like I said earlier, I hope nobody is misunderstanding me here and is thinking I'm complaining. I'm not! As you point out, the upgrades back there far far blow away any little rattle noise easily drowned out by the radio But on the other hand, if this is unique to me, now across two sets of these shocks, I am curious to know what's up with that. I know Corey is too.
More to come, I'm sure! And please if you have these shocks pipe up either way (noise or no noise) and report how you have your bypass tubes set (if you know).
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