rear shock inserts

has anyone installed a shrader valve into a knackered rear shock insert to re charge them with nitrogen or other gases :question: ---- ed

no, but it sounds very interesting!

Robin :stuck_out_tongue:

the Penskey shock on the race car has such a fitting to recharge the nitrogen ----it should work on an insert – :bulb: ----ed

What makes you think there was any gas in there to start with?

good point-if oil was added at the factory it probably leaked out before the car was sold --oil replacement could also be facilitated in this way — perhaps a threaded plug :bulb: —I’m not sure what fails in a shock----- valving wear or loss of damping fluid or gas --the rear shock inserts appear to be well suited to holding up a rear hatch on a pinto but are not stout enough to last more than a week in the rear of a car -ed

It’s easy to identify a gas-filled shock when it’s new, those are the ones when the plastic securing strap is cutoff the shaft comes shooting out to full extention. I don’t recall the Spax doing that but I could be wrong.

There is a gas-filled special shock newly available now for the Elan just I can’t recall the brand name offhand at the moment. It’ll spring back to mind later when I least expect it. :laughing: I’ve got about 5000 bookmarks which are not organized very well so finding it is a real crapshoot. :open_mouth:

I don’t like gas-filled shocks on vehicles flogged on the racetrack. Too heat sensitive for my liking.

Kieth ----4 minute lap times don’t make a difference what you have in the shocks-----Merry Christmas —ed :laughing:

Ed,
My stock Elan is quite a bit faster then a formula vee. After looking around it appears you can get Krypton filled Spax shocks now for our cars now. I think that’s a brand new item within the last year or so.

I fear krypton will neutralize my super driver powers — as I hope to find a super vee :smiling_imp: and around Mosport a vee is 145 a n elan is 159 ed