A little late on the post here...but I've had the KYB MonoMax shocks on
for well over a year without any problems. Nice ride, handles
excellent, and not a kidney buster either.
- Bernd
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of Josh
Battles
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 9:39 AM
To: dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net
Subject: DML: Re: RE: Drop Shocks????????????
Monroe's are lifetime warranteed...they'll just give me new ones if/when
they fail. Besides, I'm planning on putting the Bilsteins on anyway, I
just need something to smooth the ride out in the interim. I figure
that I'll try and get 6-8 months out of them but I dunno. I just know
that $400 for shocks is a little (ok, a lot) more than I want to (and
can afford to) spend right now. Mostly, I don't want to have to drive
to the bbq on worn shocks. I got 50K out of the stockers, that's good
enough for me. I didn't have any problems with the truck lowered, they
just ride harder, but no bottoming. The only thing on my truck that
bottoms is the tires/wheel wells on the front.
-- - Josh Lowered 2000 Dakota CC 3.9L<John_Neff@Dell.com> wrote in message news:28FD0C09445F4241898A19A40CBA2804EFD699@ausx2kmps308.aus.amer.dell.c om... > > I ran Toxic Shocks on my '83 Toyota which was lowered about 4" front > and 5" > rear. They were fairly inexpensive compared to Bilsteins but a little > more than standard Monroe's. The problem with running a stock length > shock on a lowered vehicle is the possibility you can bottom out the > shock on a hard compression. If this happen, and you damage the shock,
> it's toast and you're > back to asking the list about which shock to buy next :) > > John > http://jndneff.home.texas.net/dakota/dakota.html > > <snip> > Ok, I know we've discussed shocks like a bazillion times now, but I > can't remember if we ever discussed drop shocks. I need to replace my
> shocks and > don't have the money to spend on the super-expensive Hotchkis > Bilsteins (about $95 each) that go with my drop kit. I was thinking > of getting either > some of the Doesch Tech shocks or some generic Monroes for a stock > height truck and just compressing them excessively. What do you all > think? Anyone > have any experiences that they'd like to share??? Any help would be GREATLY > appreciated!!! Thanks!! > <unsnip> >
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