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Old 03-04-2010, 07:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Danny B
mblgjr,

Ride height is one of the most critical things on the car. The point of havng guidelines (ie. 27/29 for losi bug) is when you change tires you come back to those settings. Everytime you change tires, you need to check your ride height. If you dont' adjust and you put shorter tires on, now the car is bottoming out off of big jumps, put taller tires on and the car is rolling over too much and/or traction rolling, For example

Order of importance in my book:

1) Tires
2) Tires
3) Having proper built shocks
4) ride height and camber(tie)

As far as the original question, losi gauge!
If you're bottoming off of jumps, ride height isnt what you want to be adjusting. Ride height wouldnt be where I was looking if the car was rolling either.
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