DAA
Well-Known Member
- Location
- West Bountiful, UT
So... Shortly after leaving pavement, hit a big bump and come out of it with a horrible knocking drivers front...
Well, crap... Backtracked a few miles and found one of the rubber pieces and the metal top piece, and the biggest chuck of what was left of the roost guard. No nut though. None of my onboard collection would fit (which surprised the hell out of me, I thought I had a pretty good onboard collection). Figured without that other rubber piece, everything would just get battered all to hell anyway though. So I removed the shock and continued on my merry way. Another 280 miles of dirt - a lot of it rougher than a cob, then 325 miles of pavement to get home after that, 600 miles total, on three shocks.
Surprisingly not horrible. I mean, not good either, could sure tell I didn't have a shock on that corner, but it was okay to drive the speed limit (up to 80 MPH) all the way home on pavement. It was a lot worse on the rough two tracks. Just had to go s-l-o-w, for a long ways, which at times, sucked. But, it was a good trip, can't complain too much.
Camp last night.
Oh, and of course I checked the other side. Still a couple threads showing above the nut, but after I finished tightening it, there were about three times as much thread showing above the nut. It was on it's way to misadventure too. I'll have to call Tera tomorrow and see about new top end hardware. And I think I see learning how to use safety wire in my very near future...
- DAA
Well, crap... Backtracked a few miles and found one of the rubber pieces and the metal top piece, and the biggest chuck of what was left of the roost guard. No nut though. None of my onboard collection would fit (which surprised the hell out of me, I thought I had a pretty good onboard collection). Figured without that other rubber piece, everything would just get battered all to hell anyway though. So I removed the shock and continued on my merry way. Another 280 miles of dirt - a lot of it rougher than a cob, then 325 miles of pavement to get home after that, 600 miles total, on three shocks.
Surprisingly not horrible. I mean, not good either, could sure tell I didn't have a shock on that corner, but it was okay to drive the speed limit (up to 80 MPH) all the way home on pavement. It was a lot worse on the rough two tracks. Just had to go s-l-o-w, for a long ways, which at times, sucked. But, it was a good trip, can't complain too much.
Camp last night.
Oh, and of course I checked the other side. Still a couple threads showing above the nut, but after I finished tightening it, there were about three times as much thread showing above the nut. It was on it's way to misadventure too. I'll have to call Tera tomorrow and see about new top end hardware. And I think I see learning how to use safety wire in my very near future...
- DAA
