the truck needs shocks

Paid a shop. I replaced the steering rack and the control arms, and upgraded the bushings on the lca's to the prg set. I had no desire to try to remove the control arms, and from the sounds of what the mechanic went through it was a good decision I ordered the control arm bushings and struts from this place. http://www.prgproducts.com/shop/product/titan-5100-kit/. I had them installed on the top setting, so more preload. Some guys say it's too harsh, but I think it's just about perfect. I have a bit of coil bucket contact, I should have bought the prg upper control arms too. Everyone on titantalk says you won't need them. Go figure.

I think you can find the bilsteins a little cheaper else where, I just didn't want the hassle of having numerous packages sent up to canada. I was already placing an order with prg so I just went with them.

I have nearly 200k miles on my work truck and it drives better now than it did when I got it in 09.

 

Thanks for the input people. I'm outta here before this morfs into a synthetic vs. petroleum based oil thread. Prior owner did the v code spring swap. Bilstiens it is..

 

I pulled the Bilstein 5100s off my truck earlier this year and put on adjustable Kings. Until you use real shocks, Bilsteins are "good enough" for most. I won't be using them again. But there is a slight price differential.

 

"Kings" ?

 

Kings:
http://www.kingshocks.com/

 

i put bilsteins on my tundra, after two years of the stock "TRD bilsteins". the real bilsteins are so much better than the OEM bilsteins.

i work about three blocks from the bilstein factory, so i took a little tour over there and they have some stuff comparable quality to King but there is a significant price difference.

 

yeah, maybe its just me but even the "OEM replacement" series on the King website looks like ALOT more shock then I could ever use in my application lol

 

Thanks!

 

Bilstein Heavy duty's

 

I have them turned up all the way hard.. the truck is all but undriveable on the soft setting

 

I've had good luck with KYB's on my truck. I've had zero luck with the Monroe ones on my old truck though. I think I went through 3 sets that didn't last 15 miles from autozone before I gave up and got KYB ones. The truck did have a 460 so the shocks where dealing with some forceful bouncing though.

 

Bilstein 5100's on my 08 Titan, they have been on about 5 years. I used to tow an 18' toy hauler, a couple of different sized enclosed trailers and now a bass boat. The truck still rides nice.

 

Bilstein hands down.

 

Yep. I was gonna buy from eshocks, but oddly enough autozone was the same price. Had to order them though.

 

THIS !!! The other brands just didn't work very well on the truck.

 

Wow. It must be the off-season or the warm winter, but this is the first time I can recall the same answer by a majority of Beeb.

 

Moton. There.

Actually I need to get shocks for the Suburban.

Do you need to do alignment after shock replacement or is it just a straight part swap?

 

I had to align mine, but the bilsteins gave me 2.5in of lift in the front on the top perch.