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If shocks have even minimal shaft wear, they will leak even with new seals. Reading articles of "back when", I had read that new shocks even leaked on the dealer floor.
What a lot of builders do is clean up, clean pressure holes, new seals and then use a very high viscosity jack oil (or similar) to gain pressure. Builders have pretty much passed thru this earth and gone to Greater Reward. John Holland does a great job.


As I recall (used to build shocks), there are 13 wear surfaces inside a shock body. If one surface has wear, all surfaces have wear as the unit is inter-dependent as a working unit.

I quit building shocks because only about one in a dozen had a fighting chance of being even decent. That was probably 15 years ago. Now since they've all been culled thru, it's likely one in fifty....if any!