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Old 10-22-2014, 10:59 AM   #250 (permalink)
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How do you compress the shock to it's midpoint so you can attach it to your vehicle?
It should be fairly easy to compress by hand if you do it before you fill the air shock with air.

For mock-up with old gas charged shocks, drill a hole if they are already junk and let the gas pressure out.
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The power needed to push an object through a fluid increases as the cube of the velocity. Mechanical friction increases as the square, so increasing speed requires progressively more power.
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