The road to Chaco Canyon Vs. Bilstien 5100's
And the road won.. Usually you can go over wash boarded roads fast to smooth things out but this road was so bad I was stuck doing 5 to 12 mph.
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pronstar wrote:
Slow-speed, heavy cycling of a shock is a lot to ask.
Short of a shock with a large external reservoir, things get hot in a hurry.
Usually, they just fade (like the other three shocks on your truck likely did).
I've cooked the seals on King racing shocks.
It was the 2 front shocks that cooked. The left front (the one that is smoking in the picture) saw the heavier washboard section of the road than the right. The rears seem to be OK but I need to remove them to test. The way Bilstein describes the 5100 series shocks for my F350 seems they would be a good match for a TC carrying truck.
