Been a couple years since I added an update to this project. So far the above valvings seem to work well in almost all conditions. The only terrain were the suspension seemed lacking was when driving on really wooped-out roads in the desert blm lands east of san diego. Too many quads and pre-runner trucks traveling some of the trails out there, really wreck the terrain. But whater yagonna do. They're entitled to have their fun as well.
So anyway, those repeated porpoise-dives, one after another in a Scout.... Being a bit nose-heavy and having just a 100" wb... I would need a lot more shock to handle it. More fade-free compression damping anyway for sure. But I just avoid those kinds of trails for the most part anyway. Mine's a camping/expedition rig, not a race truck.
I noticed last year that one of my shocks was leaking oil. Close inspection revealed some mysterious pitting on the shock shaft. Long story short, I found that pitting had shredded the seal a little. So I replaced the shaft and seal. It's all good again.
Another new thing is, I modified my front spring plates and shock mounts last summer. I had been living with the spring plates as they were before I added the 7100s, but I finally decided to do things a little better. Below are some random pics from the project. You can see that for the passenger side, I've stuck with the stock-type spring plates. I just made them super-duty by boxing them up with steel and adding a "skid ramp" to the front.
