[quote=CJB]I thought I'd firm up the shocks while I had the +8 on the ramp. Turns out the nearside one was shot and had a dent in the top shroud tube so I couldn't compress it to adjust. PS : I can't think how the dent arose, there's no damage to the timber frame adjacent. [/quote}]

It is a typical dent from a severe bottoming out. They can appear at either end of the damper. It eventually happens to all shocks, even the right ones, when they are old and they no longer offer as much compression protection. See another pic I just downloaded from the internet on a general shock dent query below, next to yours. It is not from a Morgan but it is the same.

[quote=CJB]Prices for KONI replacements are ridiculous, around £140 each! I've just ordered some made to order aluminium ones from Protech, fingers crossed. PS

Pity you already ordered. I like KONI, a fine company. But they do not design their shock specifically for Morgans. After all, adjustable shocks are not made for owner adjustability, they are made to reduce the number of shocks need to be made by manufacturer production and to lower for retailer/manufacturer inventory. In the main, anything else is hype. KONI engineers will inform you that their adjustment feature dis negated the first time you bottom out..like 99% of such shocks. You would need to spend 1500 at each corner to have other than that and even they are better managed with adjustable springs rather than dampers (the better name for shocks) The UK name for these thingies is much smarter than North American "shocks".

Your smarter choice, in an odd case for the Morgan aftermarket, is the new Rutherford/AVO dampers sold by New Elms. They have internal stops for bottoming out and the rehabilitated staff of the old AVO co. are a better choice. David Rutherford used KONI dampening specifications at their softest (aka Morgan) settings to have AVO make a just-for-Morgan specs and sizes. Tim, the owner of New Elms, has always been an honest guy. He bought the Rutherford exclusivity rights with AVO from dear David on the latter's retirement. The new AVO respects that agreement so buying from them or other generic suppliers is unwise. Frankly, the standard "Morgan" shocks AVO sold directly to the public are...an unwise choice. You can get these Rutherford AVOs from New Elms or Cain Poulton at Wolf Performance..another community asset I trust. So you can get better dampers than the KONIs and save, apparently, 80 quid a set. My priority has always been best first, and price second, like you apparently. Sometimes the best is cheaper! Good luck! My suspicion and experience is that the new dampers, whether KONI or AVO, will make you happy this all happened.

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P.S. BTW, the dent should not have changed anything significant. The adjustment feature, no matter how much you rotate a used KONI body, was negated within a week of you first installing them. Always remember that a company's engineers are more regularly honest than their salesmen. Different training and no commission is my guess. In fact, AVO adjustment has the same fate, according to Rutherford to me many years ago. He is.was the type of guy who will contact gomog merely to warn people. The AVOs' adjustment does last a bit longer than KONI, but not much. Rutherford AVOs, front and back, come in the correct Morgan setting. No need to chnage anything and if you have to (normally in front) there is a method to that.

P.S.S. Once again, I do not have and have never had any benefit from those I publicly or privately recommend (30 ish years). I have been offered such incentives many times, from the MMC on down. But I am an owner, not a retailer. I like it that way. I would feel decided odd if I profited off any advice to other owners. But that is me only. I did not retire 33 yeas ago or buy Morgans merely to open another profit making business. (yuk) I do accept a pint.

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