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Subject:Replaced shocks
From:Mike Collum
Date:Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:50:25 -0400

I put new Alco shocks all around on my '85 Westy.  This is my first
experience with that brand so it'll be interesting to see how they do
over the long haul.  For now the ride is excellent.

When I took the front ones off I found that they both still had shock
action but one was softer than the other.  That helps explain why it
tended to "Wallow" a bit on uneven roads.

The rears were weird, though.  They both had shock action when extending
them but no effort was required to compress them.  That meant that the
standard "Bounce" test didn't show they were bad.

Mike
'84 GL 7 pass
'84 GL Westy
'85 GL Westy

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