shocks

anyone know where i can find info on why shocks are needed i need confice my dad why we need them on my truck

TELL HIM TO LOOK UNDER ANY AND EVERY VEHICLE OUT ON THE ROAD --- IF THEY WERENT NEEDED THEN NO ONE WOULD HAVE THEM --- TRY TO (GOOGLE) IT -- THAT SHOULD HELP !!!!

Is your dad educated in the field of suspension or uneducated. Too extreme in either direction could produce an asinine thought like that. Like tim mentioned, EVERY vehicle produced since the '30s (and most even before that) has used shock absorbers intalled @ the factory.

The reason that vehicles use shocks, is not so simple as saying "because every car has one." When a spring is resting at ride height, the shock does nothing (duh.) But once you hit a bump the spring compresses with more force then the vehicle has sitting still. So once the spring releases the stored energy, the chassis bounces past ride height and into droop (higher.) then the truck is heavier then the spring rate holding the truck up and the truck falls past ride height, storing more energy and starting this all over untill it finally settles back to it's ride height. The shock slows this whole thing down and allows it to settle right away. If you never turned a corner, I would say "whatever, it's your truck," but when cornering, it is dangerous to not run shocks. There is way too much weight transfer going on to not have any control over it.