do you run boots on your shocks?

[AkMudr]

95% of all the wheeling I do involves mud and after changing shocks the first time and findint he boot full of mud and leaky cylinders because of it I wont put them back on.

 

[Pookster]

Boots are just a giant trap for mud, sand, dirt, bugs, water, evidence......

Run without the boot. If you are getting nicks on the shaft, your hitting something really hard.... that shaft is some high strength stuff!

 

[divorced]

If you are getting nicks on the shaft, your hitting something really hard.... that shaft is some high strength stuff!

Or my shocks are junk. The are the elcheapo shocks that came with my ROUGH Country lift. The shafts will rust even without driving the truck, it sucks to have to polish them before driving...

 

[ntsqd]

Boots are just a giant trap for mud, sand, dirt, bugs, water, evidence......

Run without the boot. If you are getting nicks on the shaft, your hitting something really hard.... that shaft is some high strength stuff!

Run the boots. Leave the bottom of them loose, trim if necessary. That way the junk that does get in can fall out. I've seen damper shafts dented and nicked from rocks. Look at most of the dezert trucks. They run some sort of deflector to protect the damper shafts.

 

[rdn2blazer]

ahh come on guys, yal donts thinks the flo ressent ones are reely cool like the pink or green ones. , you kud even put more than one kolor on one shock.

 

[k20]

dont hate biatch, i run my dual shocks all around w/yellow boots. Hell yeh, anyway, yeh after a dip in the mud, my cleanup routing involves pullin the boots up, hosing em out, puttin em back on and cruisin on.

 

[Pookster]

to each their own. I like to put zip ties on em, lets me know how much "travel" i've used.