aramirez121

ive got the original air shocks in the back i have reconnected them and put 80lbs of air in them my driver side is high the passenger side is lower so what can i do to equal them out????

sofakingdom

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Air shocks might be "original", but, not to your car.

Best thing to do is to get that inappropriate crap off your car that didn't come on it, and put shocks on the car that won't punch the floor pan out; and if the springs (the thing that's actually responsible for ride height) are wore out, replace em.

RamIt

The shocks should have separate air fittings. You don't want to have air going from one shock to the other.

Lower the pressure on the high side to make up for your bad springs.

Joe Tag

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I've seen the floor boards broken out in a circle around the upper shock mounts from using them. They are a bad idea.

aramirez121

well it runs of of a t'd line at the air port and i thought it should be seperate but its not ill look further into this...i would repace them right now only issue is finances whats your guys opinion on kyb's?

sofakingdom

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They're a decent somewhat-better-than-stock kind of deal; nothing fantastic, but a good value for the most part.

FAR better than air shocks, which don't belong on these cars and which will DESTROY the car if an attempt is made to use them for what people usually try to use them for. The upper mount is nothing but a hole punched in the sheet-metal of the floor pan, behind the rear seats; it often fails even with just normal shocks installed, let alone when overloaded by trying to use a 1" dia hole in the sheet metal to hold up the car's weight.

My car failed that way, early in its life at low mileage; maybe 300,000 miles or so. Both sides were bad. One side had failed completely (shock was punching on the underside of the carpet), the other side only had about 10% of its metal left before it woulda broke all the way out. And that was with just regular street shocks, kept in good shape over the life of the car. Noticed this weird squeeek for a coupla days, then that quit and it turned into a sort of banging sometimes, combined with, felt like the car had no shock on that side. (for some reason)

aramirez121

so what you are saying even with reg gas shocks they fail also they have evened out now from driving around i do have to say is i like the stance it gave my car like a more agressive look right now i am lookingg for every ones opinion on this i am going to change them out anyways the whole rear suspension at a later date

sofakingdom

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Yes, even with regular shocks, it's a poor design; inadequate for normal wear and tear. Totally unfit for adding static load on top of its original faulty design.

Peel back your carpet and look. One look is all it will take, and you will be ripping those POSs out of there so fast you won't believe what hit you. Unbelievably stoooopid, mounting a moving force-bearing part in the middle of a span of sheet metal with no reinforcement whatsoever. Thank you, old GM!!!

Very eeeeeeezzzzy to get whatever "stance" you want the RIGHT way, with springs, and/or adding or removing isolators. And the best parts is, springs are even cheeeeeeeeeeper than shocks. What a deal.

aramirez121

how would i go about reinforcing this?

sofakingdom

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Well, when mine busted out, I had acoupla large washers welded onto the spot... not sure there's much "reinforcing" can be done. When you peeled back the carpet, what did it look like to you, that could be done? It's pretty weeeeeenie, eh?

aramirez121

its all normal looking plusbefore i did air them up they were riding on just the springs which i later found out i will look into puting some welded washers in like you did to make it stronger and see if these anything i can do to cushin the metal on metal contact as ive noticed around the web

sofakingdom

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I'm guessing you haven't peeled the carpet back yet then?

aramirez121

o yes i did yesterday

sofakingdom

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Well I guess you can see then, there's not really anything there to "reinforce"... just not a load-bearing structure in any manner way shape or form. Which is why, trying to hold up the weight of the car with that, is doomed to fail.

Get those other things off there and put the right sort of thing back, if you want your car to drive right and survive.

Ron U.S.M.C.

This is for those out there actually installing the Gabriel Hijackers on the proper vehicle that has the proper mounting points.

You must replace the "T" with this kit.

As mentioned above, replace them. The KYB "Gas a Just" shocks have a decent reputation.
They give a nice firm ride if that what you want and they don't cost a lot.

= http://www.ebay.com/itm/Universal-Air-Shock-hose-kit-valves-with-independent-Brass-fill-option-/380976746973?_trksid=p2054897.l4275
Heres a rear coil spring that has a reputation of lifting the rear a little from stock. Its also nice and firm.

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/mog-5665

There you go.

aramirez121

thanks ill def put thos in