- 1 blown shock
- 2 worn out shock pins
- 4 Legend axles that still look brand new
- 8 bushings that don't look new but look pretty damn good
- No perceptible play in any of the pivots
In fact if anything after 300K the suspension feels like its just broken in and is running buttery smooth. The force was being measured as well on the pivots and looking at the graph there was no real difference from the start of the test to this point ... basically it means that the suspension is as tight as it was when it started.
The shock bushings didn't fit tight against the bolt and had a little bit of movement which wore them down and the result is all the dust you can see in the pics... this dust is from the shock pins.
Rather then change them i'm gonna stick them back in the machine and destroy them hahaha.
Also the shock has got oil all over it... clearly blown. Figured as much as you could have cooked an egg on it until we were forced to put a fan on it to cool it down. Seriously we worked that byatch hard.
So now all we need to do is I guess run to 600K and then pull it apart again. No parts have been changed but I did clean the parts and apply new grease because it looked like the grease was also done.
We figure 300K represents riding whistler for a month, 5X per week at 10 runs [garbonzo to the GLC per day
Heres some pics of the results
