Originally Posted by jackmorini
It's been a while but I've been too busy out on the road over the Summer. In the end I realised that I'd gone beyond the point of really knowing what I was doing.

However, while messing around I had noticed that the SSL kit has a long spacer (~20mm) below the stub axle. Going back to Peter B's notes these say that this can be mounted below or above the stub axle to adjust the ride height. Now a beef I'd had since I bought my 4/4 was the frequent contact with speed bumps - on one occasion even a rock in the road.
So I returned to Berrybrook and asked them to re-arrange the spacer to increase the ground clearance and while they were at it to kindly re-adjust the suspension which had somehow gone wrong innocent

The results are amazing. The suspension behaves as expected (not surprisingly) but speed bumps - what are they for? I put my foot down and still no crunch of metal on tarmac. A bit of a bounce, certainly, but that's the grin factor happy3

The 20mm spacer seems an anomaly and dare I suggest provided to offer a one size fits all aspect to the the SSL RS kit. The instructions suggest its location above or below stub axle are chosen to best suit the OE ride height. The main spring pre-load initial setting table then lists above or below spacer location for all models from 4/4 Sport and Kent engines to +8, so clearly its acceptable fitted either side of axle. I did wonder for lighter models if it could be left out altogether with the slack taken up by main spring pre-load collar to acheive zero static rebound spring pre-load whilst allowing higher ride height. One for Peter B maybe?

Richard

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