ok, that's "odd" ..., shock absorbers don't absorb no more ... Options

[SirAndy]

sooooo, long story short, i had the feeling that my front shock were toast for quite a while now, so last weekend, we took the dust covers off so i could run the schlicks without them rubbing on the covers.

while we were in there, brad suggested that we cut the rubber stops in half because the car is lowered quite a bit and that *should* give me some more useable shock movement ...

weeeeeellllll, here's what happened afterwards ...

after we put everything together, i didn't realize until the day after the AX that it seemed as the front of the car was even lower as before.
grabed my tape-measure, and low and behold, the car dropped 1/2" in the front!

soooo, i'm pretty sure the front was already sitting on the rubber stops before we cut them (thus adding to the "shocks are toast" feeling) and now that we cut the rubber stops in half, it dropped down even more! (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/ohmy.gif)

million dollar question:
are my shocks simply toast and that's why it's sitting on the rubber stops or did i lower the car too much?
the shocks are the original boge that came with the 911 front end, meaning they're probably 20 years old ...

now what?
(IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/huh.gif) Andy