I'll take a look at the shafts in the morning light and see if there's
anything leaking there (I can check with a flashlight tonight, but I
doubt it'll be mush help). As for the "rolling pavement," there are a
few pieces of road around here where I'll get a nice harmonic "floating"
feeling. We've got some frost heave around that I definitely feel it
on.
In general, I seem to be getting a considerable amount of body roll (I
certainly expect some on a 4x4), and I'm feeling a lot of the bumps and
dips in the roads. Some of it I can probably attribute to the new
tires, but maybe the better tires are exposing some minor deficiencies
in my shocks.
That one or 2 times I bottomed out the suspension hard at Jon's, might
those have done some damage? I really only "slammed" the front end
once, but it was pretty hard (the front wheels were off the ground), but
given the high quality of the factory-spec tires, I suppose anything's
possible.
Bob Tom wrote:
> Generally, on cars anyway, life span is around 60,000 or so mi. ... don't
> know if that's the case with trucks. Most of the time, their performance
> deteriorates so slowing that it's kind of difficult noticing that they are
> softening up.
>
> I keep an eye for any leaking fluid on the shock. I also find a piece of
> highway
> that has 'gentle rolling pavement' and, if the truck begins to start going
> over them
> like an luxury cruiser, then I know that it's about time to replace the shocks.
>
> Bob
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