Before we get into spring rates, let's take a quick look at what the coil spring's intended purpose is: to insulate the chassis from forces applied by irregularities in the road. Too stiff a ...

Coilover shocks can have one, two, or three coil springs in a stack. Two springs with different spring rates is very common and is often set up as a dual-rate shock. In the initial portion of the ...

Depending on the intended use and the spring and cam-lobe design, coil-bind safety margins can now vary from 0.015 to 0.120 inch, with tighter numbers predominating on very stiff valvetrains.

For example, we can calculate the spring rate for a coil spring with a coil diameter of 0.600 inches, a mean diameter of 4.5 inches, and 8 active coils. Using the equation below gives us a spring ...

Carmaker Audi is about to roll out fiberglass-reinforced epoxy road springs which match the function of steel coils in coping with severe loading, but are around 40 percent lighter. The new FRP ...

Am I correct in saying that following the replacement of two rear coil springs on a Ford Mondeo there would be no need to have a geometry check ...

The coil springs recall comes one month after Jeep recalled about 89,000 Grand Cherokees because their steering columns had been installed incorrectly. That recall centered on 2021-2023 models.