How Things Work : How Do Shock Absorbers Work?

[AusBaNez]

Oh my god!! Those unpleasant oscillations :( thank god for my shocks

[bamboali]

thnx

[bamboali]

an empty cylinder with oil in it :)

[k13dude]

thank you very much for this video i was doing a research paper but i could not fully understand the mechanism and how it worked but this cleared it all out

[garrash6]

how does a magnet work?

[frisc45]

@garrash6 there are no magnets in suspension systems? maybe you are confused with the maglev trains?

[godfather77253]

amazing usually i dont understand skool but u made science soooo much easier and i love it.

[Toerme]

The guy looks like John Cleese

[tacubaya]

Everything in this world is a spring, all objects around you obey hookes law up to an elastic limit

[rawrgrr4298]

It's an empty cylinder filled with oil?

I don't mean to be picky here, but can anyone grasp the logic of that statement?

[hahayoulaughed]

@rawrgrr4298 Obviously he meant that it is empty of air, think rawr, think...

[rawrgrr4298]

@hahayoulaughed Haha, that's fair enough but to the untrained an empty cylinder is an empty cylinder. :p

The names Will by the way >_>

[187prettyboy]

@rawrgrr4298 hahah, but thats what shock absorbers are made of, they take an ordinary empty cylinder, and fill it with oil.

[axenz1]

I don't see any Resoivar on my Shock Absorber

[8phatkat8]

even though i can understand him i still have to read the sub title's... i can't stop it!

[likehoy247]

@8phatkat8 press the cc button at the bottom of the vid

[tacubaya]

Actually that's now how shocks work. A piston pushes oil and oil comes through the piston and through valve shims which dampen the vibrations by converting kinetic energy into thermal (heat) energy. The reservoir is there to store extra fuid that didn't go through the piston, to prevent bottom out harshness using a floating piston with air and also to house a compression assemby that can regulate compression damping.

[rcain83]

@tacubaya Duh thats why they are shocks aka shock absorbers lol not springs lol noob

[campaug]

@tacubaya thats how it is! this guy apparently is no expert. should stick to math..

[popcornkid76]

these video's are very well explained

:D

[aerosfera08]

Wonderfull!

[bikefreedom]

thanks, that was so brilliantly explained. I am not a science student, but understood it well.

[dilukabey]

good one!!!!

[vandn33]

wonderfully explained!

[Qiqidh]

I couldn't agree more. Thank you very much sir for your interesting video and keep them coming because we love them!

[aferronha]

tanks.