Shock Replacement - How Hard? - How Long?
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Shock Replacement - How Hard? - How Long?
95 LT1
Z51
Auto
This is my daily driver. I think I'm going to go cheap & get a set of KYB's.
How hard is it to replace the shocks & how long should it take?
Z51
Auto
This is my daily driver. I think I'm going to go cheap & get a set of KYB's.
How hard is it to replace the shocks & how long should it take?
Intermediate
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From: Post Falls ID
Just replaced my stock shocks with KYB's a couple of weeks ago. Very straight forward. Believe it or not, the most time consuming part is jacking the car up and removing the wheels. You should have no problem!
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From: Lacey WA RVN 68-69
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You don't even really have to jack up the front or remove the front wheels to swap the shocks. The rears are a bit more time consuming as the wheel has to come off. There are two bolts that hold a shock mounting bracket to the frame. Once you remove the lower mounting nut and the two bolts on the bracket, the rears come right off. Then just remove the bracket and install on the new shock.
When installing the rears, you have to raise the rear suspension to ride height before tightening the upper mounting bracket bolts.
All four shocks shoud not take more than a hour or two to do,
When installing the rears, you have to raise the rear suspension to ride height before tightening the upper mounting bracket bolts.
All four shocks shoud not take more than a hour or two to do,
Melting Slicks
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From: Northeast FL
Originally Posted by 96VettMan
Just replaced my stock shocks with KYB's a couple of weeks ago. Very straight forward. Believe it or not, the most time consuming part is jacking the car up and removing the wheels. You should have no problem!
I replaced my FX3 shocks last week. I haven't worked on a car in years and I was still able to do it in a couple of hours. As said above, releive the weight on the rear suspension and most of the time is spent jacking it up and pulling the wheels off. While you don't have to jack up the front or pull the wheels to do those I found it easier for access. It's a pretty straight forward job.
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From: Tucson, AZ. L98-85 AUTO COUPE: 120k MILES: daily driver. SOUND OFF IF YOU'VE BEEN THERE. Ex-Jumpin' Junky-82nd Airborne-2/505 PIR: 1st ID-1/16th Inf: Recon Marine Retread. GOD BLESS GRUNTS.
i think you should be more concerned with girth. especially if your reservoir has been repeatedly pumped. anything elastic only has so much stretch before it gives out completely.
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Last edited by parafrog; Jun 30, 2005 at 06:06 PM.
