The shocks on my car never held up anthing. Well I took some off a Camaro that appeared to work just fine, I mean It held the Camaro's hatch up just fine but I guess my hatch weighs alot more.

>What is there some kind of high power shock made for my car?.. haha

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89 Formula Firebird
Red with T-tops
5.0 305 FI
Soon to be a 400sb.

 

My hood shocks didn't hold the hood when I bought the car. I just replaced them with new ones from PartsAmerica.com and they worked fine.

 

How much did that cost?

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89 Formula Firebird
Red with T-tops
5.0 305 FI
Soon to be a 400sb.

 

The hood is reparable, forget about the hatch. Your aero Spoiler is too heavy, made of Solid Urithane & all. I am getting a couple of GTAuto Accessories Spoilers this winter, Currently I am getting 3, if you live in MI, We can cut shipping by adding one more.

John

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87 Formula TPI (5 Speed) Yellow/Gray STOCK
14.8sec 1967 Buick Riviera
1990 Buick Riviera
83 Camaro
83 T/A

 

I just got a Idea for a shock fix. I could invent some kind of clamp that works like a vice grip that you can use to hold the shocks in place. I try regular vice grips when I get home.

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89 Formula Firebird
Red with T-tops
5.0 305 FI
Soon to be a 400sb.

 

a friend of mine used a piece of aprox.3/4" pvc pipe about 16 or 18 in. long and cut a slit down it to let it slide over the rod and that worked good for him for a cheap fix.but they are only about $25 each for the back, and cheaper than that for the front ones.

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YOU ARE A F***ing genious, i have never thought of that, and btw the local auto parts store here has them for 50 PER SHOCK, i love your idea



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hey dude there is this product i saw in jcwhitney that is somewhat what youre talking about. its a bracket thats springloaded, so it pops out when the shock is all the way up. check it out there, heres the part # 13CS4688T they run bout 8 bucks each. im thinking bout getting them for the rear hatch i hate holding it up when im putting the tops back there. LaTeRZ
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You know,, you could just go to Autozone & buy some new ones made by Mighty Lift. Not only can you take them back if they dont work,, you get Autozone famous lifetime warrenty. You'd be amazed how well new items work. I have the 91-2 hi rise wing on my bird & the hatch lifts itself with the new struts.

The clamp thing has already been made (forget by who,, but I've seen it,, was made from aluminum).

Since I'm a cheap **** myself,, on my camaro,, I have a 8-10"ish piece of channel metal that I cut to hold the hatch open.

New stuts make a world of differece. My hood sturts were $36 for tha pair & I believe (w/o the reciept on hand) the rear struts were about $10-15 more for the pair.

Don't be cheap and hunt down used ones that 'seem' to work on another car,, just come of the extra cash & buy some new ones.

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<FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Tahoma"><font color="#000000"><font size=2>YEP!!!! My hood shocks went out too. I did the same thing as deadbird. Don't bother finding used ones.
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DO NOT USE VISE GRIPS!

It will score the shaft and sooner or later the strut will lose the gas/oil charge all over the interior and the hatch will slam down, EXPLODING on impact.

BTW if you hear the hissing DO NOT pull yourself up from the RR tire to see WF is going on. You'll only get your hand crushed by a falling 200 lb hatch.

I KNOW OK!

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86 T/A 5.0 A4 & 2.77 gear
15.62 @ 86 mph
93 Civic 1.6L
13.5 @ 100 mph

 

I bought a set at Autozone too. Spend the money and get it done right.

 

The J.C. Whitney repair bracket in my catalog has part# 13NS4688T and goes for $7.99 ea. If the p.n. from earlier post doesn't work, try this one. Their web site is a little buggy so you may need to call the 800 #.There are just so many times I can take my hatch lid falling on my head too!



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I just replaced my hood struts but something went terribly wrong. the driver's side lifts first... then I gotta kinda lift softly on the passenger side then it goes up quickly.... I don't know what I did. maybe it's not all lined up properly? any ideas guys?
garett

 

sounds like you got a bum lift on the side that does not work right. get another one.

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87 Formula 5.1 TPI Auto Modified (Yellow/Black)

87 Formula TPI (5 Speed) Yellow/Gray STOCK

14.8sec 1967 Buick Riviera
1990 Buick Riviera (driver)
83 Camaro
83 T/A

 

I have those They work pretty good. Just watch out in the summer heat. They bend sometimes. You can get them at Advance Auro also I think mine were $8 for the pair


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