FASS Owners, CHECK YOUR PRESSURE!!!

[steved]

Well...thought my guage was a POS...turns out the THIRD FASS SPRING is a POS...and the fourth...grrrrr!

I'm trying to keep a steady pressure of around 12psi...all I'm asking...IS THIS TO MUCH TO ASK FROM THE MAKERS OF THE FASS?????????

Here's the entire story:

Got my FASS 95/150 in Nov 2005...holding 25psi out of the box (WHY?)...bought a 12psi spring the next day to get the pressure down...had 13psi with the new spring...

12psi spring is in for less than 8k and pressure is running around 5psi by the guage (3inches from the CP3) when I arrive in NM, 2500 miles from home...have a spring overnighted to replace this failing spring (found broken in half during replacement)...got two springs delivered just to be safe, a 12psi and 17psi...replaced with the broken 12psi and pressure was back up to around 10psi...figured it was a bad/failing guage...

Well, pressure has been up and down for no reason for about 10k...finally this weekend it was down to 7psi...got a snubber to prevent another guage from dying...replaced the "failed" guage with a known working guage...still 7psi...check the old guage, 7psi...????...so now I have ruled out the guage being bad by using a regulated pressure source to check both guages...

So, I figure I better change to the spare 17psi spring just to be sure...NOW I HAVE 24PSI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So now I will need to order yet ANOTHER SPRING to get the pressure hopefully at 12psi...is it too much to ask to have a little quality control...25psi out of the box for a 95/150, a broken 12psi spring, a weak (failed) 12psi spring, and now a 17psi spring that's holding 24psi...?

I guess I better get stock in DPP's spring supplier so that I can at least make money as I'll be buying a new spring every 3 months...

So if you own a FASS, check your pressure...if you don't have a guage, better check your pressure...you might have too much pressure or not enough...

steved