[DeTomaso] Front Shock Question
JDeRyke at aol.com
JDeRyke at aol.com
Sat Mar 20 14:49:32 EDT 2010
Whatever shocks you get, I recommend installing polyurethane bushings, at
least in the lower mounts. Reason is, the weight of the car will collapse
rubber lower rear shock bushings. This collapse then distorts the rubber enough
so the lower shock body touches the a-arm mounting bracket. A
hard-to-locate thump or squeek and eventual shock damage will result. I had this happen
with stock blue-body Telecars and orange-body Konis. Nothing wrong with the
shocks- the noise was strictly from the rubber bushings not able to take
the constant load.
Note also that after changing the shocks over completely to polyurethane
bushings, no detectable increase in road noise resulted- and I used a dB meter
in the cab to verify this. Then I changed all the a-arm bushings and the
front & rear swaybar mounts to poly- still no extra noise but much better
handling. Now, I'm running Koni gas shocks with metal rod-ends in place of
bushings, and there's STILL no detectable road noise increase. So if someone
tells you that extra noise will result with polyurethane bushings, they are
mistaken. Good luck- J DeRyke
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