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.

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.

I put the KYB shocks on my 350PSD and love them.

which KYB?

I've spied them myself as an upgrade over the stockers on my HD.

I have used the Rancho 9000 series on all my trucks Ford dually, 150 FWD , Ranger monster truck.

Good stiff ride but not too much so. No slop at all...I'll get them again. There's some discussion on KYBs at TheDieselStop.com


http://www.kyb.com/products/detail.php?ID=3

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.

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.

Tried the Edelbrocks on a friends 2500 diesel Suburban and after about 20,000 miles he started complaining about a mushy ride again.

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.