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| posted on August 7th, 2011 at 10:36 PM |
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Rear shocks?
After removing rear traing arms, bearings, brakes, bushes and spring plates (patAAANNG) I was playing around with paint and cleaing things up, as
it's pretty disgusting down there.
I made the mistake of checking the rear shocks by compressing them.
They're dead. I have all these cool new bushings and bearings and parts and I'm assembling and everything's going well and then... dead shocks.
Who recommends what? Been looking at Bilsteins and Konis and some generic coil-overs but frankly I have no idea what I should be putting in. It's a
'76 IRS which is a daily driver that gets punted around a bit with some feeling: full-on sport hardness is not necessary, but it is definitely not a
cruiser.' the 'search' function has given me ideas, but no closure.
KW's look awesome 
let sleeping dubs lie
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| posted on August 7th, 2011 at 10:48 PM |
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http://www.eshocks.com/bil_veh.asp?Model_Index=77Q11&Manf=All&SubChar=Q
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| posted on August 7th, 2011 at 10:53 PM |
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I've been happy with my set of Monroe GT Gas for the last few years. They were cheap and you can get them off the shelf at most local car parts
stores.
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| posted on August 7th, 2011 at 10:58 PM |
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x2 for Bilstien's
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| posted on August 7th, 2011 at 11:47 PM |
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I've looked at Bilsteins from e-shocks before (go the search function!) worth getting 'matched' all round? heavy duty looks about right. Monroe has
the plus of being an off-the shelf item, but I've heard ppl say they're too hard for dubs.
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| posted on August 8th, 2011 at 12:14 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by Peter Leonard
After removing rear traing arms, bearings, brakes, bushes and spring plates (patAAANNG) I was playing around with paint and cleaing things up, as
it's pretty disgusting down there.
I made the mistake of checking the rear shocks by compressing them.
They're dead. I have all these cool new bushings and bearings and parts and I'm assembling and everything's going well and then... dead shocks.
Who recommends what? Been looking at Bilsteins and Konis and some generic coil-overs but frankly I have no idea what I should be putting in. It's a
'76 IRS which is a daily driver that gets punted around a bit with some feeling: full-on sport hardness is not necessary, but it is definitely not a
cruiser.' the 'search' function has given me ideas, but no closure.
KW's look awesome
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Koni & Bilstein shockers are in the TOP class and very expensive IMHO....
I usually use Heavy Duty oil shocks for the rear...
Cofap?? or Monroe shocks...
there is always KYB gas shocks too... ??
I have always thought gas were too hard for the front but I have a set of front monroe gas shocks and they are nice and soft...
cheers
LEE
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| posted on August 8th, 2011 at 08:42 AM |
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KYB can be got in oil only but do gas too. Oil will give a softer ride and gas will be stiffer if KYB or Monroe.
Bilstein and Koni do the adjustable gas so you can tune the stiffness
BUT the other big thing to remember is if your ride is lowered or not as a standard length shock won't work as well on a lowered vehicle. This can
cause either a stiffer or sloppier ride or even bottom the shock out!!!!!
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 posted on August 8th, 2011 at 10:35 AM |
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also if Your car IS lowered a lot, You may need shorter shocks..
I have shorter shocks on the front of My 68 beetle although its only lowered about 2 inches now..
when it was lower I had to go shorter...
the shocks can bottom out on a lowered car... REAR
so it needs to be able to hit the rubber bump stop
before the shock bottoms out.
LEE
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| posted on August 11th, 2011 at 01:14 PM |
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so for adjustable Bilsteins or Konis for the rear, does anyone have a part number? the ones I see do not appear to be adjustable. mind you I'm not
looking very closely 
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