Shock assembly with automatically adjustable ride height

A method for automatically adjusting a ride height of a shock assembly, said method comprising:

• accessing a main chamber of said shock assembly, said main chamber comprising a fluid therein;
• installing a pump tube within said main chamber;
• disposing a damping piston coupled to a shaft within said main chamber, said damping piston dividing said main chamber into a compression side fluid chamber and a rebound side fluid chamber;
• providing an automatic ride height adjustment assembly for said shock assembly, said automatic ride comprising:
• incorporating a tube-in-shaft pump assembly internal to said shock assembly;
• and
• providing a spring preload piston assembly external to at least a portion of said main chamber of said shock assembly;
• wherein said incorporating said tube-in-shaft pump assembly internal to said shock assembly comprises:
• providing an intake/exhaust port through a portion of said pump tube;
• and
• providing a fluid path from said pump tube to said spring preload piston assembly,
• wherein motion of said damping piston during a compression stroke pumps said fluid through said pump tube and into said spring preload piston assembly;
• and
• establishing a SAG ride height based on a location of said intake/exhaust port of said pump tube.