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Old 10-31-2007, 12:45 PM
Brett San Diego Brett San Diego is offline
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Originally Posted by JFawcett View Post
Nope....new set of Michelins last week....previous tires dry rotted.
Inflated correctly.
So these sphere things just go out?
Yes. The rubber diaphragm fails, and you lose the nitrogen air cell, which acts as the spring. When it is gone, the suspension fluid fills the entire accumulator. You now have an incompressible fluid in the entire system. Hence, no more spring, and no more spring means... bouncy, bouncy.

Everything you ever wanted to know about the accumulators:

http://v12uberalles.com/Accumulators.htm

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