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Frank D.
Dodge Dakota
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9/28/2002
13:12:14
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 Subject: Air Shocks?
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A friend of mine raised the back end of his explorer like 2 inches with some sort of air shocks from sears that you fill up and deflate whenever you want to riase up your truck, I was wondering if there is some sort of air shcoks that fit our daks and whether or not you can get em in the fron too bc he got two for like 130 so for 260 you could have a 2 in lift
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Dan Gruber
GenIII
9/30/2002
06:57:34
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Since this has been here for a couple days and nobody else has responded, I'll bite.
Sure you could get some air shocks and max them out and probably get some lift out of it. However the ride quality would quite possibly be hard enough to remove fillings from your teeth and compresss vertebrae.
Shocks serve to dampen the movement of the body/frame in relation to the suspension (that's why the Brits call them dampers). Too soft and the body wallows around (think 1977 Lincoln Continental). Too hard and the shocks won't allow the suspension to absorb the bumps but will instead simply force the body/frame to move up and down over each bump causing a rock-hard ride (think road racing bicycle with 90 psi in the tires).
Those air shocks your friend has are designed to keep the body relatively level under heavy loads, not to lift the vehicle.
Dan
2000 CC SLT 4.7 4X4 Auto 3.92 LSD
3 inch Performance Accesories lift & 32 inch BFG MT KM's
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