3.0's, bumps and nitrogen

Madcowranch said:

So is this something that needs to be tightened? I've run hard with this setup for awhile and never had an impact between bed and cab until last week. So I just figured it must have been because low psi in the bump stops.

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Almost. One had like 30 psi.

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SDHQJASON said:

One thing to keep in mind when you are checking nitrogen in your shocks...

If you are only checking the nitrogen pressure in your shocks you are going to lose pressure. There is a lot of pressure confined in a very small space inside the reservoirs and when you are attaching a gauge to the schrader valve you are opening the valve and will probably lose around 40-50 psi.

The only way to really "check" the pressure without losing any nitrogen is to use a no loss air chuck attached to a nitrogen fill tank with a regulator. I normally recommend simply emptying all of the nitrogen from the reservoir and re-inflating the shock to the recommended PSI.

These are the no loss air chucks we use, they work really well.

We also have these Nitrogen Shock Inflation Kits on the shelf.

Nitrogen Shock Inflation Kit

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