I realized the other weekend when we went biking and drove through an unpaved parking lot that the Xterra was riding like a brick. I tried to order springs but that didn’t work out because you can’t find them for a RWD only 4WD. So I still have to send those back but I did get shocks. Considering that they are the original shocks and 16 years old, it was time to replace them. While the shocks are held on by one nut and one bolt, it was a day long event. Jacked it up, put it on stands, removed the tires, dropped the spare, and pulled everything apart, there was (of course) one bold on the lower passenger side that wouldn’t come loose with the Ryobi impact, so I pulled out the air impact and it still wouldn’t move. Had ordered a nut splitter but after the sun moved out of the way, I pulled out the propane torch and heated the nut and that did the trick. Got it all put back together and it raised the back at least two inches and it rides much better. Still need to do the front strut and shock but I’ll have to get a front end alignment so I’ll figure out where that’s getting done before I do it.