ramtd02

they just dropped some chinese pavement on the gravel road by work and it seems they left behind a 65 pound boulder in the rubble. Bootin' down the road at 30 mph when i hear BANG!!!. Bounced this boulder off the front diff, into the tranny crossmember, then into the muffler, of the rear pass. shock, and off of the rear diff.....the only damage was a totally ripped apart shock, a huge ding in the cross member, and a dent in the muffler.

What is the closest shock too stock?? I would rather pay 30 bucks for something similar, then whatever the *********** would want me too pay for a single shock.

TexasCTD

The stock shocks are junk anyway.

This would be a great opportunity for you to upgrade all your shocks to Rancho 9000s or Bilsteins. You would be pleasantly surprized at the difference in ride quality and handling.

ramtd02

i am pretty happy with stock setup, and i prolly would upgrade right now, howwever i am going on holidays in about 2 hours, and i am not going too be able too get the front shocks out in less than 2 hours.

so i figured id suck it up for now and just get one oem replacement....or is uit safe too change the rear shcocks, and leave the fronts for now??

GreyTD

you should be fine, if you don't have to many mile on it yet. and no you don't need to change the fronts unless they are damaged from the boulder.

ramtd02

i got 2 procomp 9000's for the price of 1 oem replacement. We will se how they are.

XLR8R

What's Chinese pavement?

ramtd02

chinese pavement is crushed ashpalt, we buy it off of the road crews and spread it on our gravel roads too keep dust down, after a week or so a packer comes through, and the crushed ashpalt is like a regular road.

XLR8R

Oh - OK

We use crushed concrete down here called "powder base" or "white rock".

Otherwise, it's a lot of chipseal out in the country.