When the front suspension is cycled up and down on my car, I've been getting some binding. It feels like something is sticking, like a bent shaft, and it causes a rough kind of feeling when the car is hitting bumps.

I've narrowed it down to the plastic coil catchers that sit between the promary and secondary springs. They seem to be binding up on the shock body instead of sliding smoothly. I poured a lil water on them and it temporarily fixed the problem.

So is this comon? Are they just worn out? I was thinking about spraying the shock body with some teflon spray......

they do wear out over time, also pull your springs off & have a look to see that the ends of the springs(where they're smashed flat & ground) are still square to the rest of the spring...sometimes they bow over time.

If your collector is c0cked slightly, try twisting the offendng spring to a different position to straighten it out.

If it's pretty badly worn, you can replace it with the "billet" one from King, it's supposedly more durable. It'll fit either King or Fox shocks.

Anything you put on there for lube will probably collect sand?

Seems like you haven't had the car long enough to have worn them out by now..

I will try this. Like O Soto gari pointed out, my car is fairly new, has only about 6 days of duning on it, and probably just as many days of easy desert riding so they shouldn't be worn out.

the problem showed up when i was running the drags at gordons, when there was so much dust in the air. I was thinking all that fine dust could have been the problem, but I right before that trip i was adjusting the preload collars down on the front shocks causing the spring to turn with the collar.....

I have never used teflon spray but I though people sprayed their cars down with it because it would repel dirt????

The billet spacers will scar the shock body alot more then the plastic ones will. I would try to take the plasitic ones and lightly sand the inside. Just a thought.

Silicon spray will not attract as much dirt as regular lubes, but I don't think anything repels dirt.

Try a put the "ends" of the springs opposite one another on the slider...worked on my prerunner.

you're saying just to take off the springs and flip them around, but re-install them in the same order? I can definatly try this when ii take off the shocks to see what exactly is happening. maybe i just have a rock or something imbedded in there. I'll find out one way or another.....

I must have confused teflon spray with silicon, but teflon just seemed to be a good idea. I mean nothing sticks to teflon, and teflon isnt greasy, everything would just slide off, and the slider wouldnt bind up.

Seems like i remember teflon coated shocks from the race level R/C cars????

If they are King shocks the "billet" spacers are "billet plastic," not aluminum, and they don't scar the body at all. I know for a fact that the billet plastic King spacers are a hundred times better quality than the cheapo ones most King shocks come with. It's beyond me why King even sells their shocks with the cheapo spacers. They all should have the good spacers.

that sounds a lot better. i was thinking billet aluminum would make it worse. i dont understand why some products come with inferior parts that are going to be required to be upraged almost immediatly.... wish they would have made the betetr spacers standard and just raised the price to cover the costs....

Hopefully they have them at revenge when my car goes down there for the clutch..