96f150eddiebauer

I had stock ones I believe and replaced with Monroe Gas shocks there yellow in color, noticed difference but truck still drives like a boat to me, wondering if anyone has experience going from monroes to somehing stiffer and is it worth spending the money or will the difference be marginal

ALTAJAVA

Is this your first F series?

96f150eddiebauer

Yes it is, is this just how it's gonna be, I'm just wondering if it's worth paying 300$ or so, to get a little bit better ride

BLDTruth

Do you have sway bars?

Mine drove like a boat with no sway bars attached.

irianjim

Well, I can't tell you if it is worth it or not, but I bought the Bilsteins and put them on my 94. They are good shocks and I like them but I am not sure they are worth the cost differential. I still get some sway but not unexpected given that it is a truck. However, the ride is much better than the 23 year old originals that I took off. My guess is that the difference is indeed marginal.

My $.02 worth.

96f150eddiebauer

It does have a sway bar, I'm wondering if replacing all the bushings on the sway bar might have an effect, but I think it's just how it drives and that's fine I think it has the polyurethane bushings on the radius arm, I'm also thinking about possibly changing the pivot bushings on the i beams but haven't looked at all that stuff to see if it's even bad, overall I bought the truck with 135k on it and it drives real nice, I have replaced the ball joints upper and lower both sides, and drag links and tie rod ends, also whee bearings and brakes so I pretty much rebuilt the whole front end except for going through all the bushings but like I said not sure if they are even bad

96f150eddiebauer

Have you ever ran Monroes?

irianjim

No, I haven't but there are guys on the forum that have and are pleased with them. There are lots of threads on the forum about shocks - just enter "shocks" or "Monroe" in the search function on the 1987-1996 f150 section and you can see what others have to say about Monroe, Bilstein and many others. I looked and read all of them and chose to do the Bilsteins. I am really pleased with them but they were about $350 on Amazon and I expected to be wowed and I wasn't. They are fine and I am getting improved handling and a good ride, but I question if I really got value by spending so much. Look at what the others have to say and go from there.

96f150eddiebauer

right on, ya I read all those but just wanted to see if it was just me not having driven too many trucks especially from that year, when I'm ridin down the street the ride is fine, it's Turing into a drive way where it feels kinda bouncy but I can live with it,

justintendo

do you have front and rear sway bars?