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Location: Upstate NY | Ok, so I have the chassis all blasted and painted and reassembling suspension. The new leaf springs are hung and I have received my new gas shocks but the distance is larger than the shock length fully extended. Yes, they are the right shocks I compared with the old ones. So here is my question. Does it hurt the shock to compress the leaf spring enough to be able to attach the shock and leave it on blocks or should I wait until I have it on tires on the ground with enough weight to compress the shock some to install them.
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Location: Chestertown, NY ( near Lake George) | I would wait till you have the suspension where it should be. |
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Location: Upstate NY | Thanks Shep. I can always count on you for good advice. I thought the same thing but wasn't sure. I also have some reservations about the front shock. The old ones were factory heavy duty and we're quite a bit larger in diameter than my new gas charged shocks? Are they really equal or better than the fluid ones? |
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Location: Chestertown, NY ( near Lake George) | A good quality gas shock will outperform any std. shock, external size is not the issue, valving and piston size is. My friends 59 Dodge has re-branded front Carquest shocks, that lasted 6 years. |
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Location: Arizona | bbrasse1 - 2014-06-16 3:59 PM
Ok, so I have the chassis all blasted and painted and reassembling suspension. The new leaf springs are hung and I have received my new gas shocks but the distance is larger than the shock length fully extended. Yes, they are the right shocks I compared with the old ones. So here is my question. Does it hurt the shock to compress the leaf spring enough to be able to attach the shock and leave it on blocks or should I wait until I have it on tires on the ground with enough weight to compress the shock some to install them.
Thanks in advance for your help.
When your car is finished and you need to change tires, what will keep the springs from going way way way down when you jack the car up? The shocks will. That shocks are what limits the spring travel when the body is going up and the tires are going down. So I don't see any problem with what you are thinking of doing. |
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Location: Upstate NY | The only difference would be that I will probably have it up on blocks for another month. A tire change is only minutes. Do you think it matters? |
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Location: Arizona | Personally I don't think it matters. It has to be built tough enough to sustain an actual "hit" if you go over bumps that would make the rear wheels leave the ground. |
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