<VV> Bouncing 64 Convertible (Rick Sanford)

[Hugo Miller]

Have you tired pushing down each corner of the car a few times & see if 
it carries on bouncing? If it were my car I would pull those shock 
absorbers off one by one unless you can identify which corner it is) and 
test them by hand.
I fitted a new set of shocks to my British car a while back and within 
a very short time it started bouncing badly - one of the front shocks 
had had something come undone internally and it was doing absolutely 
nothing. You can get faulty new parts.


On 2020-05-11 14:40, Dale Dewald via VirtualVairs wrote:
> On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 12:00 PM Rick Sanford wrote:
>
> We don?t have a vibration we have a car that bounces like a car with 
> worn
> out shocks. I may have to remove them and check the adjustments to 
> see if
> they are on the firm settings. The car is in Florida and me and my 
> shop are
> in S.C.
>
> Hello Rick,
>
> I had a similar problem way back (about 15 years ago) when I 
> installed new
> shocks all around on our Greenbrier. Really, it was only the front 
> end that
> bounced when I first took it out for a drive but it felt like the 
> whole
> truck was some sort of carnival ride.  Upon bringing it back to the 
> shop I
> found that the special front shock bumpers didn't seat into the shock
> towers when I bolted everything together, despite putting a floor 
> jack
> under and compressing the A-arm when tightening the shocks.  Only 
> driving
> up and down a bumpy road got them seated properly and I was simply 
> able to
> reach into the front wheel wells and tighten the top shock studs 
> which were
> way loose.
>>>>Problem solved.
>
> Dale Dewald
> Hancock, MI
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