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would air shocks make my 86 k5 blazer ride smoother? right now when i run over a pebble i can feel it. can not play my cd unless the road is very flat and smooth.
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No, air shocks would make the problem worse. Give some details about your suspension. If it rides that rough you have other problems...
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Air Bag your CD player
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LIES! I've never thought about air bagging my CD player.
Now, putting my CD player on a hot water bottle full of corn syrup is another story... ![]() Isn't the Edelbrock IAS shocks claim to fame the fact that they give a much smoother ride over rough roads than standard shocks? |
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ok, that's unique, flagg. give some suspension details, i'm sure someone can help!
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Now, putting my CD player on a hot water bottle full of corn syrup is another story...
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My truck is a 1986 K5 blazer 1/2 ton. Lifted 4 inches. as far as the rest it is all stock suspension. tires are 235-75x16. Can not afford to buy airbags for it. was looking for a different was to make it ride softer. CD is no longer a problem it stoped working.
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The lift springs are probably your problem. Some of the cheaper kits use a very stiff spring. 235/75/16 sounds pretty small for a 4" lifted Blazer, a taller tire with more sidewall may help too. That sounds more like a stock tire for a 3/4 ton truck....what is the load rating of that tire?
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You could swap out the 4" springs for stock springs, then do a shackle reversal that will get your 4" lift back. It should ride alot smoother with a stock spring.
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that might help in the back, but in the front, it's harder to get a soft ride. maybe longer shackles, and less lift springs? here's an idea.....2" lift springs, 2" longer shackles, and 1" zero rate springs from www.offroaddesign.com ? i dunno if you wanna shell out more bucks for a completely new front spring setup. if you do this, you are gonna need about 4* shims to correct the pinion angle, because the shackles are in the back on the front springs, so if you go with longer shackles, it points your pinion down, which is bad. just a thought. mebbe someone on here has better info about this than i.
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ummm, the shackles aren't on that site, everything else is, though. check out www.coloradok5.com for product reviews on longer shackles, i know they are on that site, thought they reviewed the offroaddesign ones. oh, and you can pick up the angle shims at your local 4wd shop, they are a pretty common buy. if you can't find 'em anywhere and you decide to go with this idea, i can get a set of 4* shims for about $15, and ship 'em to ya.
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Thanks for all the idea's but I found the problem. It is the shocks. Who ever had this prior pit on a set of el chepo's. I cleaned off one of them and I never heard of the co. going to but 4 good ones tha are rated for both off road and on road., that should help. Still trying to figure how to measure what kind of life I have on it. No names or numbers on the springs.
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One last shot at ID'ing the springs. What color are the bushings? |
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