B.G. Willers

New shocks!

Well with decent days back, I have a list of things I want to do to the car this year. One of the main things is new shocks and springs in the rear. As you can see, the rear is kinda saggin’. It’s not too bad, but if anybody gets in the back seat it drops real low.

It needs new springs too, but for today, I’m just putting new air shocks on. It should be a pretty painless swap. But if you frequent my blog at all, you know that when I do something to the car, it usually turns out to be more than I bargained for! So wish me luck. Updates, later.

UPDATED:

Got it done. Took about 3 hours while drinking beer and listening to the K-State game (sucks they lost, at least it’s just basketball). As far as I can tell…problem solved. It rides a whole lot better, and the rear doesn’t sag anymore. When pulling the old air lines out I noticed that one of them was plugged. So the right shock was actually still holding air, but the left one wasn’t. I still think it needs new springs, because the left side still droops slightly, probably from having that leaky shock there so long. But that’s for another day.

Here’s the old junk that was in there.

Here’s the old, compared to the new.

Installed!

Holy crap! It’s level!

Unlike most of my projects, this one didn’t take much longer than planned.  I figured 2-2.5 hours if everything went right.  I was pretty close.  Only issue was I blew a fuse when I plugged in my air pump to air up the shocks.  Knocked out the radio and the dash gauges.  Good thing I keep an assortment on hand!  I just have to remember now not to use the cigarette lighter until I find out where the short is.

Yup, it’s always something.  Gotta love old cars.  =)