I bet. What class is the boat? My ride would have been considered 'hard bouncy'. Hard to describe unless you were in the car. If I hit any bump with any load in the rear, the bounce came from the springs after the SLS spheres 'bottomed out'. That is how I imagined what was going on based on the feel.
The spheres have a small orifice in them. Behind the orifice is a rubber ball full of nitrogen. I suppose the 'shock absorber' effect is created by the orfice only allowing so much hydraulinc fluid to move back and forth, compressing and relaxing the ball. So order a set of spheres from Rusty then leave the boat there, and head up for the icy beverages, writing off the fuel as a test run for the spheres. I have an old Highlander we can use as a platform for beverage consumption (c: Richard --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Richard, > > Thanks for the info. So, your car was also bouncy when the spheres > needed to be replaced? I thought that the failure mode for those was > a hard ride, not bouncy. Is there some valving that goes on inside > those? I think that their function in the system is basically the > same as shock absorbers in a normal suspension set-up, so it would > make sense that they would have some valving like a shock absorber. > > Thanks also for the invite, but I'd rather fix the bouncy ride before > towing the boat again, and even your offer of icy beverages won't > sway me. It is NOT fun to be in this thing bucking up and down, with > a 2000lb sailboat filling the rear view mirror. > > Very respectfully, > /s/ > LCDR Meade M. Dillon, USNR > Digest Lurker since 2001 > '85 300TD 322k miles (Euro 5spd) > '96 Infiniti I30 149k miles (wife's 5spd) > '73 Balboa 20 'Sanctification' > Charleston SC > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
