Shock absorber problems anyone?

Wouldn't it be too long if it's bending? If too short, it would be trying to pull it longer and straight so speak, wouldn't it? I guess it might depend n how it's mounted?

Bill

It would be great to have pictures of the setup.

I looked under mine and the shocks have completely fallen off (or maybe there were none to start with) :-)

Trackrig wrote:
Wouldn't it be too long if it's bending? If too short, it would be trying to pull it longer and straight so speak, wouldn't it? I guess it might depend n how it's mounted?

Bill

The bracket bracket on the spring shackle plate is bent down about 45 degrees and the shock stem is nearly broken off. It appears the shock either stuck(froze) or the shock is too long when the spring is depressed.

Jerry B wrote:
Last year I had a shock upper mount break off the frame taking out the rear axle brakes. I now have a shock severely bent along with its lower mount on the spring plate. The shocks are the Monroe 555025 RV gas magnums. I wonder if the shock stroke is too short, or????? Anyone else having similar problems? thanks

Per my conversation with Lippert about my factory shock mounts.that shock is the equal to theirs for a mount spacing of 11 inchs from mount to mount & 3 in axles.

Have you checked equalizers and shackles for wear defects that allow axle to move out of place? Broken or soft leaf springs?

cmeade wrote:
Have you checked equalizers and shackles for wear defects that allow axle to move out of place? Broken or soft leaf springs?

All shackles are new (Heavy duty stuff) and wet bolts are new. The springs are fine. Then equalizers are TrailAir rubber bellows.

sayoung wrote:

Jerry B wrote:
Last year I had a shock upper mount break off the frame taking out the rear axle brakes. I now have a shock severely bent along with its lower mount on the spring plate. The shocks are the Monroe 555025 RV gas magnums. I wonder if the shock stroke is too short, or????? Anyone else having similar problems? thanks

Per my conversation with Lippert about my factory shock mounts.that shock is the equal to theirs for a mount spacing of 11 inchs from mount to mount & 3 in axles.

That sounds correct, the shock with the lippert kit measure a tick over 8.5" (8.625) compressed and 13.5" extended, which is about 5" of travel and the mid point 11". I would check your shocks to see if the measurement.

I just went through this last summer with our rig. The replacement shocks I bought the year before were too long and broke one upper mount and bent all the others. Shocks were bottomed out when installed. I installed them with the axles hanging when I rebushed the springs and replaced all the brakes, so I had no idea that is was a problem until I found a shock wedged between the tire and frame when backing into a site.

Jerry B wrote:

Trackrig wrote:
Wouldn't it be too long if it's bending? If too short, it would be trying to pull it longer and straight so speak, wouldn't it? I guess it might depend n how it's mounted?

Bill

The bracket bracket on the spring shackle plate is bent down about 45 degrees and the shock stem is nearly broken off. It appears the shock either stuck(froze) or the shock is too long when the spring is depressed.

Dexter Kit

The bottom plate is supposed to be bent. I had a similar situation. After checking a resent installation, I found that my shocks were 2" to short. The shocks were fully extended when at rest. Gotta check every thing these days. The threads on the shocks were long enough to allow spacers to bring the shock extension in. Will see how it works in April.