Greylock 4 suspension adjustment question

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If the problem is not just rigging the secondary suspension to eliminate the concertina effect Shug talked about, then pull several inches of your primary suspension through one of the UQ's mini-carabiners and tie both strands into a simple overhand knot. The carabiner now stops at that knot, which effectively shortens your primary suspension. You don't have to untie anything to do this, unless you need to untie THAT knot to change back to having a longer primary suspension afterwards.

I sold my GL4, and can't remember the exact details of the primary suspension. Some UQ's have a cord lock at one end of the primary suspension - pulling slack through that cord lock acts as an adjustable version of the knot tying method I discussed above. You could add that cord lock at home pretty easily (if the GL4 doesn't have it already).

EDIT: If your GL4 is a newer version than Shug's, you might not have to add a secondary suspension as he suggests. It may already contain a clever, minimalist one. The cordlock and paracord sheath shown here combine the head/foot cinches into a secondary suspension, by also running the primary suspension through that cord lock. Just move the position of the cord lock along the primary suspension to function as the secondary suspension and keep the UQ from sagging (if memory serves, Shug added a similar effect to his GL4 using a Prusik hitch).