Rear shocks or air lift

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Rear shocks or air lift

Postby nismopath » Sat Jul 21, 2018 6:46 pm

I have noticed lately that my rear suspension is a little soft. It doesn’t show that much on pavement of course but on gravel roads it’s much more obvious. I think I may need new shocks as I’m at 150k and the current ones look original. my question is..
Do I get rear shocks without getting new front shocks, or do I get an airlift to buy time before replacing all four at the same time?


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Postby Thupertrooper » Tue Jul 24, 2018 12:29 pm

Air lift will only stiffen the ride. If they don’t dampen you will need shocks.
Do the bounce test and see how many times it cycles.

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Postby nismopath » Tue Jul 24, 2018 2:57 pm

What’s the bounce test?

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Postby Thupertrooper » Wed Jul 25, 2018 8:33 am

nismopath wrote:What’s the bounce test?
Google


https://youtu.be/J5Q_Sve9toM

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Postby smj999smj » Wed Jul 25, 2018 10:36 am

For me, if the shocks are suspect, I would replace them before installing air bags. You can replace the rears now and the fronts later, if you wish. Bilstein 4600's are a good choice for the rears; if you want to go with KYB, I'd go with the Gas-a-just. In the front, whenever you are ready for them, KYB Strut-plus strut assemblies are the way to go.


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