True coilover "supporting" mods

Originally Posted by Rusty

If you remove the spring and shock, disconnect the sway bar. There is enough friction in the stock bushings that they will hold the knuckle in place. And it's hard to move it by hand. If you replace the bushings with SPL parts. The knuckle will drop. And you can move it through it's arc by hand. Something that you can't do with the stock bushings.

Originally Posted by MaysEffect

gotcha. I'm not sure this means much though when you are taking into consideration 3000ibs of weight forced down on the wheels. The amount of friction is probably still less that the un-sprung weight of the wheel and spindle.

But of course, free floating bearings will have less static friction than rubber to rubber.