Helper Springs

[Erich Stahler]

So I need to have a helper spring in order to stop the main spring decoupling from the shock absorber top cup on full droop, my question is with an arrangement like in the picture above, when the car is sitting on the ground the top cup edge and the thin edge of the collar that locates the helper spring inside the main spring will be holding the weight of the car, surely that cant be correct?

Second image below hopefully illustrates better what I mean.

[Erich Stahler]

stevieturbo said:

That shows a setup with much thicker helper springs. Not really the same.

maybe there is a thinner adapter for those helpers that gets around this. Although I'm near sure I used that style of helper on mine at a time, and do not recall any issues like that

That said, if the lower collar was inverted, that might allow the helper to go flat before the alloy parts collided ?

Actually stevieturbo that's not a bad idea, however in the end I have ordered some packers which might be the easiest option, so I can wind the platforms until the spring has a slight preload, taking up the slack with the packers, not as granular as using the platform adjustment but should do the trick.