| [GMCnet] Re: Shock Absorbers [message #367584 is a reply to message #367566] |
Mon, 15 November 2021 13:39  |
jimk
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Location: Belmont, CA
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KYB has improved the rubber mounts several years ago.
If you purchased the earlier ones, contact me, and I will replace them or
send you the Urethane bushings n/c,
On Sun, Nov 14, 2021 at 7:20 PM James Hupy wrote:
> I have them, KYB's, on my 78 Royale. I installed them September, 2008.
> Disconnected the fronts to install control arm bushings a couple of years
> ago. The gas in the shocks was still quite evident. Those things are a
> bitch to compress to reinstall them. I wound up using big tie wraps to hold
> them compressed enough to reinstall. I have installed a whole bunch on
> customers coaches, and never have encountered a shock failure. Not so with
> Bilsteins. They break welds, lose their gasses, their bushings fail, too.
> My vote is with KYB's.
> Jim Hupy
> Salem, Oregon
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> On Sun, Nov 14, 2021, 6:53 PM Larry wrote:
>
>> Here is a copy/paste of a post I did a while back on this issue. HTH.
>>
>> In 2002 I brought my coach home from Houston. Among other things, I
>> checked the shocks, and found all Bilstiens. Two were broken at the top
>> ring. Two
>> were intact, but all of the oil had leaked out, so were nonfunctional.
> The
>> last two were functional but near dead. On the advice of others on the
> net,
>> I bought kyb's. I have about 75K miles on them now and my only complaint
>> is that the bushings in the mounting rings are too soft for the
> application,
>> especially the uppers. The rubber di-forms and actually squashes out of
>> the ring; I have replaced all of the bushings with "Energy Suspension"
> 3/4"
>> Polyurethane hourglass shaped bushings, Part #9.8108. These bushings have
>> held up for 8 or 10 years now without degrading. Unless kyb has
> responded to
>> other complaints relative to the bushings and corrected it with a harder
>> material, I personally would put those Polyurethane bushing in new kyb's
> and
>> avoid this problem later. Other than that issue, the kyb's have preformed
>> well for me and I'd buy them again. JMHO
>>
>> --
>> Larry
>> 78 Royale w/500 Caddy
>> Menomonie, WI.
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