Hi all. In the process of turning one of my shocks rebound damping knobs the
wrong way and breaking it off, squirting oil all over the trunk of my car,
I came
to ponder what the use of rebound damping was, anyway. I understand we
need to damp the harmonic motion that would have our tires bouncing
indefinitely
like S.F. taxis, but wouldn't one-way damping on the compression stroke do?
Is there ever a time we would want to delay the return of the tire to the
road after
a bump? Or is the tendency to bounce so high that we want some damping each
way, rather than having the compression damping be stiff enough?
Joe Weinstein (whose car is at S-car-go Racing to get a shock rebuild)
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