Rear hatch shocks
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Rear hatch shocks
Went out this morning about 10 degrees and opened the rear hatch on my Excursion and opened the barn doors and just happened to catch the rear hatch before it fell and surely would have hit the barn doors.
Seems as though the oil in the shocks was too cold for the shocks to hold the rear hatch up.
Just a note of caution on this in cold weather for those who don't know this. Seems as though this is how some of the rear windows get broken.
By the way my shocks are good as long as they don't get real cold.
03 Excursion
V-10 Limited
Black 4X4
Seems as though the oil in the shocks was too cold for the shocks to hold the rear hatch up.
Just a note of caution on this in cold weather for those who don't know this. Seems as though this is how some of the rear windows get broken.
By the way my shocks are good as long as they don't get real cold.
03 Excursion
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From: Cottageville, WV
It was around 8 degrees here and I notice when I put the hatch up that something was not right so I avoided getting hit in the head. It made it real hard to get what I needed out of the back though. You really do not know how heavy the hatch is until the shocks fail. I had a 78 Pinto with the all glass hatch and when the shocks failed on it I suddenly realized that the glass was very heavy.
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The 2wd shocks are nice.
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Well today at 31 degrees the rear hatch shocks work as new. But I can assure you at 10 degrees they are useless.
I really don't think there is any thing wrong with mine other than the "fluid" in them just conjells at cold tempatures. If a problem exists it is a design problem due to whatever fluid that is used in them.
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I really don't think there is any thing wrong with mine other than the "fluid" in them just conjells at cold tempatures. If a problem exists it is a design problem due to whatever fluid that is used in them.
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Black V-10
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Well today at 31 degrees the rear hatch shocks work as new. But I can assure you at 10 degrees they are useless.
I really don't think there is any thing wrong with mine other than the "fluid" in them just conjells at cold tempatures. If a problem exists it is a design problem due to whatever fluid that is used in them.
03 Excursion
Limited 4X4
Black V-10
I really don't think there is any thing wrong with mine other than the "fluid" in them just conjells at cold tempatures. If a problem exists it is a design problem due to whatever fluid that is used in them.
03 Excursion
Limited 4X4
Black V-10
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Hi Rob,
You have got to be correct 100% on this, they would not design something this simple that would not work in cold weather. I'm going with your advice. Thank you Sir. I'm sending Rep Points your way for this advice. May be tomorrow as my limit has been reached today.
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You have got to be correct 100% on this, they would not design something this simple that would not work in cold weather. I'm going with your advice. Thank you Sir. I'm sending Rep Points your way for this advice. May be tomorrow as my limit has been reached today.
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I love this site!!!! Sorry, just had to say that. I've gotten so many great tips from FTE including the 2wd lift supports for my 4x4 X. Put 'em on last night and they work like a dream -- but it's only in the mid 20's.
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Hi Rob,
You have got to be correct 100% on this, they would not design something this simple that would not work in cold weather. I'm going with your advice. Thank you Sir. I'm sending Rep Points your way for this advice. May be tomorrow as my limit has been reached today.
UrbanXX
You have got to be correct 100% on this, they would not design something this simple that would not work in cold weather. I'm going with your advice. Thank you Sir. I'm sending Rep Points your way for this advice. May be tomorrow as my limit has been reached today.
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For those who keep the EX in the garage, and put longer shocks on your 4x4, open it slowly when your garage door is open and hanging above you. With that in mind, this is one of the best cheap mods you can make, in my opinion.
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Even though my Excursion is bone stock and has 265X75-16 tires and my house has a 3 car garage my Excursion would just barely fit under the garage doors with the roof racks removed. Of course my house was built in 1978. As mine has never been in my garage it might even be to long, if not it would be close.
So needless to say mine sits outside.
This is just one of those things you never think about until one is faced with the situation.
I would surely have the problem you are referring to if it was in my garage.
So needless to say mine sits outside.
This is just one of those things you never think about until one is faced with the situation.
I would surely have the problem you are referring to if it was in my garage.