Mystery Shocker

[Stratton Jimmer]

Just wondering if anyone may have an idea what brand of shock absorber this might be. It has been "colour coded" to match the delft blue GT6. Pressing down on the rear of the car with my 77 Kilos (11 stone) results in virtually no movement so I'm looking at some suspension adjustments.

[Clive]

I wonder if it is a gaz shock? they are gold, but usually adorned in othjer stickers too.

You say press on the rear of the car, where I wopuld not expect to see a huge amount of movement. Shocks I test by hand to make sure they take a few second to fully compress and open with me pressing or pulling. At the back too much damping is bad news, needs to be fairly compliant. But if you have been prssing on the bodywork, you have been testing the spring.

And Rotoflex shocks are not easy to find.....

[trigolf]

That's a Gaz shock. It should be adjustable with the knurled knob at the bottom. Most people find that setting click 2 or 3 is hard enough. I think it will go up to 12 or so. You'll break your teeth on any more than 3!

Gav

[Nigel Clark]

34 minutes ago, trigolf said:

That's a Gaz shock. It should be adjustable with the knurled knob at the bottom. Most people find that setting click 2 or 3 is hard enough. I think it will go up to 12 or so. You'll break your teeth on any more than 3!

Gav

+1

Definitely a Gaz shock

Blue shroud, gold body and green sticker are typical of Gaz.

Nigel

[Unkel Kunkel]

Gaz shock.

btw, 77 Kg  is a bit more than 11stone, Nigel..

[Pete Lewis]

the gaz can end up with road dirt seizing the adjuster knob   

held on with a small  allen screw   undo and remove the knob   there is a detent/gives the clicks  spring and small ball under the knob    

give it all a clean refit   and its fine again    not that they get adjusted very often 

Pete

 

[Iain T]

13 hours ago, trigolf said:

Most people find that setting click 2 or 3 is hard enough. I think it will go up to 12 or so. You'll break your teeth on any more than 3!

Yes it's a GAZ, when fitted to the rears I set at 6 clicks. On a test run the guy on the back seat was bouncing up and down like a demented jack in the box😂. I think I've set at 1 click rear and 2 on the front. 

Iain 

[Peter Truman]

Mine have the knob and detent ball but the knob has (-) left (+) right from Zero, so is one klick all the way left then forward one click?

[Pete Lewis]

yes clockwise stiffens the rebound 

on mine there was in the box  a graph of clicks vs loads  off their dynamometer 

Pete

[Peter Truman]

Must check have the calibration graphs somewhere

[Stratton Jimmer]

Thanks everyone. Collectively you are the "font of all knowledge".

[Pete Lewis]

there a lot of cracks about whats in the Font  !! or the pulpit !!  for that matter

Pete

 

[NonMember]

1 hour ago, Stratton Jimmer said:

Collectively you are the "font of all knowledge"

... but individually we're all Comic Sans

[Iain T]

3 hours ago, Stratton Jimmer said:

font

I always use Arial......

[Colin Lindsay]

Works great even at 30 degrees.

[Iain T]

I'm not allowed near that porthole. Apparently I don't put the clothes in correctly?!?! 

[Chris A]

2 hours ago, NonMember said:

... but individually we're all Comic Sans

 

[Stratton Jimmer]

They are indeed Gaz shocks so no more mystery. I followed Pete's advice on freeing up the adjusters and have now set them on 2 clicks. A quick test run within the last hour has confirmed this to be a realistic setting similar to that of IainT.

[Iain T]

Are they better than the ones you replaced? My Gaz seem fine.

Iain

[Stratton Jimmer]

I didn't replace them. They were on the car when I purchased it but had been disguised with blue paint. A quick run over with a wire brush and hey presto, they are GAZ branded shocks.

 

[euan douglas]

Another question about Gaz shocks - is there a hard stop at each end of the adjustment and if not then how many clicks from the neutral setting to fully soft and fully hard?

Euan

[Colin Lindsay]

37 minutes ago, euan douglas said:

Another question about Gaz shocks - is there a hard stop at each end of the adjustment and if not then how many clicks from the neutral setting to fully soft and fully hard?

Euan

If they're anything like Spax they just sort of fade out in one direction and the clicks become almost non-existent. I think - and it's hazy - that they'll stop in one direction but get very vague in the other. I ran my Gt6 rears on about 3 and this is why I seem to remember them stopping in one direction, so I could could 3 from that point, but if you went on the clicks just became fainter with no seeming stop point. Hopefully someone here will be able to confirm for definite.

[Stratton Jimmer]

1 hour ago, euan douglas said:

fully soft and fully hard?

I haven't tried the hardest setting but there's definitely a solid stop at the soft end. One of the pair was seized and I followed the advice given by Pete, above, to free it off. From the softest setting I wound it up as far as six clicks but then brought it back down to two. The non seized shocker was on two clicks in the positive direction hence my choice. Test driving shows this to be a very acceptable setting for the roads around Stratton St Margaret. The back end which has CD drive shafts is well planted and handling through tight bends is superb.

[Clive]

2 hours ago, euan douglas said:

Another question about Gaz shocks - is there a hard stop at each end of the adjustment and if not then how many clicks from the neutral setting to fully soft and fully hard?

Euan

From testing with my shock dyno (ie me pressing on a shock, off the car) Gaz tend to go solid after about 5 clicks. (this may vary)

But on teh rear they need to be pretty soft or it will skip about. 2 clicks seems to be about right. 

[Iain T]

I have the 1" spring spacer on my Vitesse and 1 click on the rears feels OK. A hard rear end isn't comfy or nice to drive😂. I tried one click on the fronts and it seemed a bit floaty and disconnected with the road at speed. 

Iain