Ball Joint Over-Travel Inspection

On front suspension of this vehicle, there are no jounce stops, other then shock absorbers. Therefore, in event of a shock absorber mount failure, there is no other jounce bumper to limit amount of jounce (upward) travel of vehicle's front suspension. In this type of failure front suspension would jounce (move upward) until stopped by stud of upper and/or lower ball joint hitting against ball joint housing. If this type of shock absorber failure were to occur, upper and lower control arms on side of vehicle failure occurred MUST have upper and lower control arms replaced.