Updating the brakes and shocks on my SR4 (mechanically identical to an SR1 and the suspension seems to be identical to an SR3) and ran into something I thought was odd.
I removed the front left shock. Was playing around with suspension travel and making sure everything was tight. I noticed that I could only raise the front left suspension an inch or two before there was a hard stop due to the nik link. Disconnected the nik link and have full travel (like 6"+, I didn't pay attention to the amount). Reconnected the nik link and sure enough only have an inch or two of travel.
So, I infer from this that in straight ahead load, if one side hits a bump, there is very little suspension travel at all.
Is this normal/by design? I know the nik link acts as an efficient anti-roll reducer / spring multiplier, but I didn't realize there would be an inherent limiting of suspension travel.
@johnsopa, I asked Phil about this and he asked if you could send or post some pictures so he can see what is going on.
