Hendersons Line Up

[Pete Masterson]

That's an interesting idea... and might be a possibility as I've
noticed that the coach comes off the jacks fairly rapidly. I'll make
my procedure to 'air up' before raising the jacks. I usually need the
air pressure for the waste water dump valves anyway as that's a 'last
thing' before departure from most places where I've used the jacks.

The technician at Henderson's didn't speculate on the possible cause
of the break (after considering that the shock might have been too
short). The failure was pretty obvious, so I'd think that it would
have been noticed when the current shocks were installed. I don't
know if there's something different about the left vs. right side ...
the right side didn't show any signs of fatigue.

Pete Masterson
'95 Blue Bird Wanderlodge WBDA 42
El Sobrante CA
aeonix1@...



On Sep 17, 2007, at 2:42 PM, David Brady wrote:

> Another scenario that could excessively stress the shock
> mounts (assuming they bottom before the air bag bump
> stops) is releasing the HWH jacks before adding air to
> the bags. In this case the coach will come down quite hard
> onto the bump stops or shock mounts, whichever hits
> first.
>
> David Brady
> '02 LXi, NC
>
> David Brady wrote:
>>
>> Seems like not enough miles for ordinary metal fatigue
>> to set in. Is there something else going on? Perhaps when
>> the suspension air is dumped, the weight of the coach comes
>> down on the shocks, not the bump stops. Could be that
>> the Koni's are too long for the chassis/suspension, or it
>> could be that the frame pick up points are woefully under-
>> engineered. At this point, I think we should all go out and
>> check our shock to frame mounting points for cracks.
>>
>> David Brady
>> '02 LXi, NC
>>
>> Pete Masterson wrote:
>>>
>>> One (left front) shock mount was cracked. The coach has about
>>> 130,000
>>> miles. Henderson's checked the other factors and determined that the
>>> shocks did not need to be replaced.
>>>
>>>
>>
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