Just a personal viewpoint and experience with gas charged structs
Like the ideal of the gas charged structs for all of the pro reasons stated in the thread, but personally will never install them for safety reasons and if I did they would have to have a positive locking device to hold the load in event of failure of the gas cylinder. Gas charged structs do fail and like most items that use seals to control the pressure that hold a load more often than not failure results is a sudden lost of pressure. My company work truck has a fiberglass topper and the back access door had gas charged structs that hold the door open and they suddenly failed which resulted in the locking mechanism of the door striking the top of the head leaving a nasty cut.
I have to ask would you raise a vehicle on a hydraulic bottle or floor jack, remove the tires, and then crawl under the vehicle without placing jack stands under the frame or the axles beforehand.
A heavy falling hood can cause serious injuries', imagine your fingers across the top side of a fender and hood dropped suddenly dropped.
However your body and bronco do as you please.
Like the ideal of the gas charged structs for all of the pro reasons stated in the thread, but personally will never install them for safety reasons and if I did they would have to have a positive locking device to hold the load in event of failure of the gas cylinder. Gas charged structs do fail and like most items that use seals to control the pressure that hold a load more often than not failure results is a sudden lost of pressure. My company work truck has a fiberglass topper and the back access door had gas charged structs that hold the door open and they suddenly failed which resulted in the locking mechanism of the door striking the top of the head leaving a nasty cut.
I have to ask would you raise a vehicle on a hydraulic bottle or floor jack, remove the tires, and then crawl under the vehicle without placing jack stands under the frame or the axles beforehand.
A heavy falling hood can cause serious injuries', imagine your fingers across the top side of a fender and hood dropped suddenly dropped.
However your body and bronco do as you please.
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