[Santa Maria]

Hi There,

been using multiple different springs (both steel and titanium ones) over they years without any issues.

Last weekend I put a new Ti spring on my Cane Creek DB shock (with one full turn of preload). After the first run the spring became loose. Fixed it and it became loose again. Then I went up to two turns of preload + some tape on the preload collar and it worked so far.

Has anyone expirienced somethiing similiar/ what could be the reason?

Cheers

MK

 

[Nick]

No idea why, but I had a Vanilla RC back in the day and that pre-load spring collar would back off every once in a while. I put a dab of blue loctite on the shock threads to fix the issue.

 

[EVIL JN]

Had the same problem with the spring i bought from Ti springs.com. Solved it by filing down the inside of the last coils on the spring. They wouldnt even slide with some force over the collars.

 

[Kanye West]

Likely the spring is taking its initial "set" and losing a couple mm of length.

 

[ChrisRobin]

What about the argument that springs slightly rotate during compression?

 

[Santa Maria]

Thanx for the ideas guys - I think I found the reason, the spring is far away from being straight - therefore it needs more preload to keep in place.

Will send it bake to the shop!

Cheers

 

[blindboxx2334]

your spring isnt straight?? is this a common occurrence with ti springs? i dont think ive heard of that before.

 

[Kanye West]

What about the argument that springs slightly rotate during compression?

Well, it would also rotate back whatever small amount that is under rebound, assuming there was some preload on it.

 

[Santa Maria]

your spring isnt straight?? is this a common occurrence with ti springs? i dont think ive heard of that before.

No, this is not common at all as far as I know - never had any issues with ti springs so far! Bad luck I guess