Personally, when I put spacers up front, I am going to try to put a small
spacer over the shock too (possibly half the width of the spacer over the
spring.) That way, the spacer over the spring won't decrease my suspension
travel quite so much.

At 05:52 PM 7/20/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Steve,
>I think I might of missed the original post.  What did you use for a spacer
>up front?  I would like to try the same thing this weekend.
>
>
>At 23:48 7/19/98 -0700, Steve wrote:
>>Yes, it's back to this topic again, but only because I have
>>something to report.  I pre-loaded my front shocks today,
>>and have now pre-loaded front and rears.  I had already
>>added an additional rear-spring donut between each rear
>>spring and spring perch.  These are a little over 1/2 inch
>>thick to my recollection...Up front, I followed Harold
>>Yancy's lead and inserted spacers between the top spring
>>perch and the rubber that fits on top of the spring.  I put
>>a 7/16inch spacer on the left and a 5/16" spacer on the
>>right.
>
>
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