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3rd generation 
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Posted: 30 Nov 2025 at 12:31pm |
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Allis c coil spring with shock. I’m 210lbs and this spring bottoms out. What’s my solution?
Coil over shock absorber to gain more tension or is a newer coil spring stiffer.
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DrAllis
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Posted: 30 Nov 2025 at 9:54pm |
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A new shock/spring assembly will be better than what you have. That's what coil springs do over time......flatten out. If it has an slot adjustment, move it as far to the rear as possible.
Edited by DrAllis - 30 Nov 2025 at 10:07pm
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Les Kerf
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I put an old air shock on the seat of my 1941 Johnny Popper. I'm about 100 lb heavier than my grandson so we can adjust it to suit our needs.
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Posted: 21 hours 51 minutes ago at 2:49pm |
 3rd generation wrote:
Allis c coil spring with shock. I’m 210lbs and this spring bottoms out. What’s my solution? |
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3rd generation
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Posted: 18 hours 22 minutes ago at 6:18pm |
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Funny good one. And yet I’m considered thin by coworkers at 6’2” . I’m going to try a small coil spring rated at 130lbs. just behind the fulcrum along with the original under seat before buying a new large coil spring and spring over shock. I’d prefer this if it works as my wife (120lbs) will use it to mow at times. Take out the small spring for her and vice versa.
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My grandfather was a 6'8, 330lb mountain, who saddle rode his percherons and carried and tossed two 90lb alfalfa bales in each hand <by the strings> like they were tennis balls, and pushed around Santa Gertrudis bulls like they were kittens. His tractors all had stiff springs. when i was a teen, I raked hay with his D17 wondering why the seat had no 'give'. I spent the day after standing on the rack, glad to have my rather sore posterior NOT in that seat...
Turns out, there simply wasn't enough load for the seat to respect my then-much-lesser gravitational attraction...
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