Coil spring bottoms out
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Topic: Coil spring bottoms out
Posted By: 3rd generation
Subject: Coil spring bottoms out
Date Posted: 30 Nov 2025 at 12:31pm
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Allis c coil spring with shock. I’m 210lbs and this spring bottoms out. What’s my solution? Coil over shock absorber to gain more tension or is a newer coil spring stiffer. |
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Posted By: DrAllis
Date Posted: 30 Nov 2025 at 9:54pm
| A new shock/spring assembly will be better than what you have. That's what coil springs do over time......flatten out. If it has an slot adjustment, move it as far to the rear as possible. |
Posted By: Les Kerf
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2025 at 6:00am
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I put an old air shock on the seat of my 1941 Johnny Popper. I'm about 100 lb heavier than my grandson so we can adjust it to suit our needs. |
Posted By: PaulB
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2025 at 2:49pm
Nurtisystem Weight watchers Olesra chips Paleo Pritkin The choices are endless  ------------- If it was fun to pull in LOW gear, I could have a John Deere. Real pullers don't have speed limits. If you can't make it GO... make it SHINY |
3rd generation wrote:Posted By: 3rd generation
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2025 at 6:18pm
| Funny good one. And yet I’m considered thin by coworkers at 6’2” . I’m going to try a small coil spring rated at 130lbs. just behind the fulcrum along with the original under seat before buying a new large coil spring and spring over shock. I’d prefer this if it works as my wife (120lbs) will use it to mow at times. Take out the small spring for her and vice versa. |
Posted By: DaveKamp
Date Posted: 02 Dec 2025 at 12:12pm
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My grandfather was a 6'8, 330lb mountain, who saddle rode his percherons and carried and tossed two 90lb alfalfa bales in each hand <by the strings> like they were tennis balls, and pushed around Santa Gertrudis bulls like they were kittens. His tractors all had stiff springs. when i was a teen, I raked hay with his D17 wondering why the seat had no 'give'. I spent the day after standing on the rack, glad to have my rather sore posterior NOT in that seat... Turns out, there simply wasn't enough load for the seat to respect my then-much-lesser gravitational attraction... ------------- Ten Amendments, Ten Commandments, and one Golden Rule solve most every problem. Citrus hand-cleaner with Pumice does the rest. |