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Message:: [QUOTE="Hanadarko, post: 4788841, member: 33817"].....After reading about issues with RK back in 2012 (and I commented in there too back then) - nothing has changed with the company. They redesigned the shock last fall of 2014 to improve the seals and stuff to help prevent leaks I guess. I don't know how effective that would be. I also noted that the shocks themselves look like crap after less than 6 months. They are all pitted and I had thought they were a decent metal like aluminum or stainless. Even my SLX after 1yr still looked brand new with the paint and everything intact. One interesting thing I discovered this week....I stopped into Fontaine to get a new trailer winch (proprietary for my Renegade) - and we discussed high charge gas shocks. (the SLX are not charged and do not expand on their own or anything). The parts guy mentioned a few guys had installed high pressure gas shocks on their Fontaine trailers - and to their dismay discovered that they caused the trailer to wander and follow groves and crack lines on the highway vs regular shocks. The tech kinda explained to me why that happens with high force gas shocks (RK have something like 1000s of lbs of dampening force to help PUSH the wheels on the ground) - but I can't quite recall what he said. He just told me do not put gas 'charged' shocks on their trailers - EVER. I can't honestly say I noticed that with the trailer....but it makes sense.[/QUOTE]