Originally Posted by Cameron Kellogg

Same here. I had a rear shock body that would not thread correctly. I ended up cross threading the cartridge so bad I could not get it to seal and had to use one from the blue bodies. It was the last shock I was building so I might not have been paying attention but it did not feel right about half way in. At that point it was hard to say if it was the cartridge or the body that had some crud in the threads.