1970 swb c-10

[jmking9]

I have been wanting to upgrade to better shocks for quite a while. I just never knew what to get. A friend of mine recently put some Ridetech RQ shocks on his Chevelle and was very impressed. So I decided to give them a try. After talking with Matt at Matts Classic Bowtie, I took some measurements. I never realized how wrong the KYBs that came with the ECE kit were for my particular truck. The old kybs were way too long in the rear. I always thought it was the axle bottoming out on the bumpstops in my c notch when you hit a big bump or RR track. But it was actually the shock bottoming out. Here are some pictures of the difference in lengths. The fronts were just slightly too long. Probably because I run a 2"spring in place of the 1.5" spring that would normally come with the kit.