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Press the shock absorber down to exactly 6-11/16". If it measures longer than that, then it is sprung or broken. In my experience, if the shock is broken, then there is a lot of resistance when roping over the motor, and I didn’t see that on the video. If you take it apart, as others mentioned, the length of the shock and the evidence of damage to the upper bearing housing will tell for sure.
On second thought. I did have a CD-15 that had a sprung not broken shock. It still showed the upper bearing housing damage and was elongated. That one was not especially hard to rope over, so that must have been the scenario that Ben described where the spring is semi-functional.
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