Unsolved help needed for Modifying suspension and more

I am new to modding beam vehicles. I want to start by making mods for the vanilla vehicles. How do I start modifying and making new suspension parts? I want to lift and lower different vehicles. Any help will be appreciated.

 

There is a good description of the properties of springs and shocks in the wiki that will give you a good head start. I dont know the exact location but it should be easy to find. Precomp is basically the ride hieght but there is also long bound and short bound as well as many others that give unique characteristics.
Have fun modding.

 

After I locate that, how would I go about making a whole new part for the list?

 

Copy the the jbeam, give it a new name and add stuff or change things and make a mod out of it
I would suggest making a lot of variables since that is easier then tweaking jbeam code (you don't have to test a lot then)

 

Thank you for the information, I will give this a try!