There is the rare possibility that when hitting the pothole the N/S shocker piston rod has been bent and the bent section is preventing the shocker from reaching its maximum amount of downward travel.
If it was a deep pothole the shocker may have been fully extended as the wheel dropped in the hole and when the wheel contacted the edge of the hole it both bent the piston rod and as the weight of the car was again pushing the rod back down into the shocker, the bent section could have been forced into the shocker, but won't come back out again under spring pressure.
There aren't many other things that will prevent a shocker from reaching its maximum extension when a wheel is off the ground.
Annoyingly the only way to prove this is to remove the leg and spring.
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