Shocks
10 Year member
Joined: Jan 2015
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From: Edmonton Alberta
My Lariat rear shocks were dead after a year or so, changed to 4600 Bilsteins all around, rears made a night and day difference, changed the fronts a while later and not much difference at all.
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Joined: Nov 2020
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From: Chicagoland area in Illinois
So my 2020 has 29k miles. When sitting in a turning lane on a 4 lane road, when cars pass me (especially trucks), I feel my whole truck rock. Is that a sign mine are going bad? I do pull a 6k travel trailer at times and it at times wiggles in the wind, but not often. I like the soft ride of my 502a, what would you recommend?
the moving object is pushing air around it and at its sides when next to another object its creating a vacuum, at the rear the air is turbulent and releasing the suction that was created, thus causing the rocking motion your feeling
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Joined: Dec 2020
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If I were to replace my rear shocks with a Fox 2.0 or Bilstein 5100 do I need to replace my fronts with a lift? I'm just curious as normally those rear shocks are used in 2" lift kits so will my truck have a huge rack after putting those in?
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Joined: Oct 2015
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Originally Posted by Natureboyz
If I were to replace my rear shocks with a Fox 2.0 or Bilstein 5100 do I need to replace my fronts with a lift? I'm just curious as normally those rear shocks are used in 2" lift kits so will my truck have a huge rack after putting those in?
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Joined: Jul 2019
Posts: 34
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From: Eastern NC
I'm swapping out the rears with 5100's soon, siting in my Boom Boom Room now, just been busy this past week. The stock shocks are terrible in the rear, feel like I'm bunny hopping anytime I accelerate around turns if pavement isn't smooth as butter.
Probably going to let a shop install the fronts with a 2" lift, not sure I want to tackle that without a decent garage to use.
Probably going to let a shop install the fronts with a 2" lift, not sure I want to tackle that without a decent garage to use.
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Joined: Oct 2020
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From: Brandywine Md
2019 XL with only 18,xxx miles, my front passenger side OEM shock is leaking but I don't feel an I'll effect from it. My mechanic will be replacing them all here soon. I had hit a dip on a dirt shoulder of the road. It was a pretty good dip bit soft, not like a ridged pot hole. I can only suspect that's what caused it to leak. The cylinder is wet with oil all the way down to the lower control arm which is wet underneith with oil and dripping.
