Patent ID: 8261895

Claim:
A hydraulic shock absorber in which a lower end of an axle-side tube slidably inserted into a vehicle body-side tube is threadedly engaged with an axle bracket, and a lower end of a suspension spring interposed between the vehicle body-side tube and the axle-side tube is seated on a spring receiver supported to be not rotatable with respect to the axle bracket in the axle-side tube, wherein the spring receiver is divided into a spring receiver base portion that is supported to be not rotatable with respect to the axle bracket and has an outer diameter smaller than an inner periphery of the axle-side tube, and a spring receiver cylindrical portion that is inserted into an inner periphery of the axle-side tube and the suspension spring is seated thereon, wherein a lower end engagement portion provided at a lower end of the spring receiver cylindrical portion is seated on an upper end engagement portion provided at an upper end of the spring receiver base portion, so that the spring receiver cylindrical portion is concentrically set to the axle side tube, wherein the axle bracket is provided with a spring load adjusting portion that adjusts a spring load of the suspension spring by vertically moving the spring receiver, and the spring receiver base portion of the spring receiver is supported to be not rotatable with respect to the axle bracket by being engaged with the spring load adjusting portion, wherein the spring load adjusting portion supports an adjusting bolt by the axle bracket so that the adjusting bolt is rotatable, a washer being abutted against a step surface of one end side of the adjusting bolt, a slide inserted into the other end side of the adjusting bolt, the slide capable of straight movement in a direction intersecting a center axis of the axle-side tube, by a rotation force of the adjusting bolt, a lower slant of the spring receiver base portion placed on an upper slant of the slider, a lower vertical surface of the spring receiver base portion abutted against an end surface of the washer, the spring receiver base portion and the spring receiver cylindrical portion movable vertically by the rotation of the adjusting bolt.