In today’s world of specialization, having one location for full maintenance of your travel machine is not all that easy. We all want to have a home for maintaining our car, jeep or truck, but then, what to do when it’s time for auto repair, when the engine is not running properly, who do you turn [...]
Are you a car owner whose machine is an extension of the “real you” and for whom caring for your auto is not so much auto repair as it is a natural part of keeping yourself healthy and whole, like brushing your teeth? If keeping your machine healthy, whether it be a car, jeep, van or [...]
A shock absorber on your car or truck is a hydraulic system that slows the motion of the springs when turning or cornering. If you didn’t have the shock on each wheel, the car would shake a lot more and yaw on cornering or tighter curves on the highway. What shocks do is steady the car [...]
In general, the gas charged shocks are better. When you push against a regular shock, it stays; when you push against a gas charged shock it pushes back to the original position before it stays. That is why we use gas charged shocks on heavier vehicles and race cars. On race cars we usually use nitrogen [...]
Unless there is a catastrophic failure of a shock, we are not able to “check the shocks” as a regular maintenance activity because general wear and tear does not show that much physically. While it is true that there are some seals where gas or oil can leak slowly, it doesn’t ordinarily cause a drip that [...]