8 ball problems.

[Moocowsia]

This is kind of unexpected, but I put the 8 ball onto its max travel settings and the tire keeps hitting the seat :stupid: 3-ft drop, seats meets tire. It's really annoying me. What can I do to make the back end stiffer without majorly tightening up the spring and raising the seat? I've already tightened it quite a bit and the seat it about 9" from the tire. I dont know how the hell it keeps touching :S Any ideas?

[corey@nsmb.com]

raise the seat half an inch?

[derwood]

heavier spring?

[Moocowsia]

850 spring. The seat is already pretty high, any higher and it will start feeling like an XC bike. It shouldn't be going through this much travel to hit the seat. It must be using like 7.5 inches to hit it off a 2' drop.

Is it possible that the spring is losing its spring?

[AnTi-TrAiL_nAzI]

i read "8 ball" and i thought it would be an angry rant about how brodies suck and break alot.. i would say.. try sliding the seat forward on the rails..

[derwood]

Originally posted by Moocowsia
Is it possible that the spring is losing its spring?

yes....

Btw...does your rebound work?.......maybe the shock is just pooched.

[Moocowsia]

The rebound works pretty nice. I way playing around with it on today, decided to keep it on slow cause otherwise it hops a bit too much.

[_TAZ_SIMPSON_]

when i had my 8-ball i had the same problem. 8" travel with an 850 pound spring and the tire rubbed of 3-5 foot drops. at that time i only weighed about 110 pounds! i blew the shock 3 times in 4 months. i just left it on 6" cuz i had no clew how to fix it. try pulling your seat forward and up a little?

[Moocowsia]

I think I'm probably going to just put it back on 6". Anyone know if theres like 1000lb-1200lb springs out there?

[AnTi-TrAiL_nAzI]

fox makes a 1050.. i know that.. i was going to order one..

[.Robinson]

just dont use a seat

[Ninja]

Offset seat post......... facing forward

[DEXX.31]

do you have a really big seat like the funn's,big boys ect ??

[Moocowsia]

Yup, got a massive azonic seat off one of my friends recently.

[IFO]

Originally posted by Moocowsia
Yup, got a massive azonic seat off one of my friends recently.

theres your problem..

scrap that junker and get a real seat.

WTB speed V...

u might just try sliding your seat farther forward on its rails to.

[Bryce]

take the spring out and move the suspension through its travel. Then you make adjustments to seat to move it just out of the way