Shock in coil over strut

[craka]

Is there a difinitive way to tell if a shock is gone in a a coil over strut in situ?

I feel like my front passenger shock may have gone.
Seem to notice front left, seem to feel as through it dips or sinks down more on the left when I turn hard right, for example at moderate speed turning right at a round about.

Fwiw I have a two inch or there about left with Lovells springs and aussie ryder twin tube has shocks, and would have at least 70 thousand kms on them.

[Two Emms]

Would standing on each end of the bullbar and giving it a good bouncing give you an indication?? If the two sides are different, it's a start

Oops seems you don't have a bullbar trying to bounce each front corner (somehow) may still help

[craka]

Would standing on each end of the bullbar and giving it a good bouncing give you an indication?? If the two sides are different, it's a start

Oops seems you don't have a bullbar trying to bounce each front corner (somehow) may still help

I do have a alloy bar, and have tried doing that. But haven't been able to tell, I think they're may be a difference in the rebound but I'm not certain.

[old Jack]

Find a quiet safe location, drive at 20kph in a straight line and brake hard to a stop, observe if one side or both side dip down and bounce back and continue to bounce. A good strut should allow the front suspension to compress and then extend/recover in a controlled manner. If the suspension has repeated oscillations (bounces) then the strut is not doing the dampening required.

OJ.

[dhula]

At 70k kms and depending on the type of driving you've been doing then IMO the shocks are getting close to if not at replacement time.

There are a couple of ways to check if your shocks are working or are way shagged.

• OJ's suggestion is the easiest but might not give you easy to understand results due to being both front at the same time and one side might supplement the other. A really worn/stuffed shock compared to the other will stand out like dogs balls tho
• You can bounce each corner as hard as you can, closest you can to the wheel is best and at least 4x good bounces, and release. The corner should stop bouncing after no more than 1.5 bounces - you bounce it, when it's at the bottom you let go, the corner should come back up aprox the same as what it went down and then come down 1/2 that. If it's more than 1.5 times then your shocks are suspect and would be on the cards to be replaced.
• You can drive over corrugations for a while and then check how hot the shocks get. The colder one compared to the others means something is not quite right. The boiling/burning one compared to the others means something is not quite right.
• You can take it to a specialist suspension place to have them checked. Somewhere like Pedders have a drive on shock tester but not sure if theirs will do HD suspension or 4wd's. Be sus of the results as Pedders are known to up-sell for profit

[craka]

Thanks for the advise guys., I'll try some of that put.

[craka]

Thought I should up date this.

I was positive from the bounce test but thought I noticed a difference on the front left, plus with the other indicators when driving.

So I order a pair of front shocks and pulled the front strut assemblies out, took them to a mechanical shop to compress the spring ans swap shocks out.
Picked the assemblies back up with the old struts.
One of the old shocks, the rebound had totally gone.

Ride is much better now.