Shocks/springs/ride height

[John Larson]

Let's think about the ride height question.  You can compress KYBs, and even
Bilsteins, by hand.  Let's say the car weighs 3600 pounds, that's 900 pounds
per corner.  That's gonna compress them right to the limit.  You have
springs, held in check only by the shock absorber (or insert).  See where
I'm going?  The spring holds the car up, and it's length is controlled by
the presence nut on the end of the shock.  Take the nut off, releasing the
end of the shock, and the car could theoretically rise until the spring
reached it's unrestrained length.  The sheer weight of the car prevents
this, however.  What you have is a problem with the length of the piston,
not the pressure of the gas inside the insert (shock).  You need a shorter
shock.  HTH, John