New shocks for a PSD
08-27-2007, 10:10 AM
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New shocks for a PSD
I have surfed around the Ford truck forums and Bilstein seems to be the shock absorber of choice on those boards. Any truck guys on the board have a preference. Its a 2005 PSD 4wd short box dually crew cab have 75,000 on it and shock are showing there age.
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08-27-2007, 10:17 AM
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I like the Edelbrocks better. I had the Bilsteins and they were a dramatic improvement over the stock shock. I put the Edelbrocks on my other Excursion and liked them so well, I took fairly new Bilsteins off the other truck and replaced them with the Edelbrock.
Both are fairly similar with the truck loaded- the Edelbrock rides much nicer unloaded.
Both are fairly similar with the truck loaded- the Edelbrock rides much nicer unloaded.
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08-28-2007, 09:19 AM
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I'm running the KYB Monomax shock on the exact same truck as you except mine is an 06 with 19.5 Brentz wheels and Michelin xde+2s definately a firmer ride than the oems.
08-28-2007, 09:35 AM
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I see alot of mention about "firmer ride" which is what the Bilsteins gave me. I changed to the edelbrock as it was the only one I could find that would provide automatically variable adjust on the damping. The truck rides the same no matter what I have inside and I don't have to adjust anything. If you want to stiffen things up, they're not a good choice.
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I see alot of mention about "firmer ride" which is what the Bilsteins gave me. I changed to the edelbrock as it was the only one I could find that would provide automatically variable adjust on the damping. The truck rides the same no matter what I have inside and I don't have to adjust anything. If you want to stiffen things up, they're not a good choice.
08-28-2007, 01:05 PM
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I see alot of mention about "firmer ride" which is what the Bilsteins gave me. I changed to the edelbrock as it was the only one I could find that would provide automatically variable adjust on the damping. The truck rides the same no matter what I have inside and I don't have to adjust anything. If you want to stiffen things up, they're not a good choice.
The Bilsteins have that as well. I have put around 100,000 miles on my Bilsteins and so far so good. I will also tell you that Bilsteins warantee is good. They replaced some shocks that I got off a crashed car no questions asked.
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