Buying new shocks
12-02-2012, 04:26 PM
#82
Originally Posted by KansasBob
Collar flipped No spacers!, Equals the same freaking height...! "redo" lifted position with the spacers...installing now again. I got 4hrs in this,
12-02-2012, 05:58 PM
#83
Originally Posted by Especial86
Your going to run with the lifted selection on the strut and the spacer this time? Did they send you the wrong struts or something???
12-03-2012, 10:19 PM
#84
Got my bilsteins today!
I just put the rears in tonight and took a short beat run. No more donkey kicking over uneven surfaces! My passenger side rear shock was complete garbage taking over 2 min to extend from a full compression... If you put a slight fingertip load on it, it would not extend at all...
The bilsteins even seem to be giving me a little rake or height boost. Right now my bed is full with tools, an old toilet, and an old cast iron wall hung lav. I can't even tell that stuff is in there now. Before, I would sag quite a bit at takeoffs and over uneven surfaces (donkey kick). The front still dives deep on those uneven plunges, but that will likely be gone once I put my fronts in....
Here's the few pics I took tonight..
I just put the rears in tonight and took a short beat run. No more donkey kicking over uneven surfaces! My passenger side rear shock was complete garbage taking over 2 min to extend from a full compression... If you put a slight fingertip load on it, it would not extend at all...
The bilsteins even seem to be giving me a little rake or height boost. Right now my bed is full with tools, an old toilet, and an old cast iron wall hung lav. I can't even tell that stuff is in there now. Before, I would sag quite a bit at takeoffs and over uneven surfaces (donkey kick). The front still dives deep on those uneven plunges, but that will likely be gone once I put my fronts in....
Here's the few pics I took tonight..
Last edited by Especial86; 12-03-2012 at 10:28 PM.
12-03-2012, 11:30 PM
#86
Senior Member
sweet 
12-04-2012, 06:32 PM
#87
Senior Member
Got my bilsteins in today. Mine have 3 positions on the front. Stock, + 1", and + 2". My truck is an 04 and the part number for the front shocks is 24-122986. I should be getting them installed next week.
12-04-2012, 07:42 PM
#88
Senior Member
i wonder if i got discontinued version cause mine is the only one i seen with only 2 positions.
12-04-2012, 09:45 PM
#89
Originally Posted by Especial86
Got my bilsteins today!
I just put the rears in tonight and took a short beat run. No more donkey kicking over uneven surfaces! My passenger side rear shock was complete garbage taking over 2 min to extend from a full compression... If you put a slight fingertip load on it, it would not extend at all...
The bilsteins even seem to be giving me a little rake or height boost. Right now my bed is full with tools, an old toilet, and an old cast iron wall hung lav. I can't even tell that stuff is in there now. Before, I would sag quite a bit at takeoffs and over uneven surfaces (donkey kick). The front still dives deep on those uneven plunges, but that will likely be gone once I put my fronts in....
Here's the few pics I took tonight..
I just put the rears in tonight and took a short beat run. No more donkey kicking over uneven surfaces! My passenger side rear shock was complete garbage taking over 2 min to extend from a full compression... If you put a slight fingertip load on it, it would not extend at all...
The bilsteins even seem to be giving me a little rake or height boost. Right now my bed is full with tools, an old toilet, and an old cast iron wall hung lav. I can't even tell that stuff is in there now. Before, I would sag quite a bit at takeoffs and over uneven surfaces (donkey kick). The front still dives deep on those uneven plunges, but that will likely be gone once I put my fronts in....
Here's the few pics I took tonight..
12-04-2012, 11:13 PM
#90
Originally Posted by KansasBob
install these already! Lol.
I want the extra time to possibly try running them both ways. At 2" rebound and with the spacer set to stock. The rears are definitely night and day so far... The truck even appears to be raked now. My passenger was so bad, it took over 2 min to fully extend from full compression.. Thankfully, I have a shop press at home so I think swapping the coils will go quick...
I'm gonna use these flanges to compress the spring in the press.
This is how my idea will generally work.. (The wood on the bottom is substituted with the cast iron flanges)
I'm probably gonna do end links and tie rod ends too...
Last edited by Especial86; 12-04-2012 at 11:37 PM.
