opinions on shocks

Cave Dave · Mar 10, 2012

It's time for a new set of shocks for my DD "the Clapper" 1990 Toyota and I was wanting to hear some of your experiances with differant brands of shocks.The suspension is all stock and the truck mosty gets driven on the street with an ocasional trip to the dunes.Currantly I have some Rancho 5000s on it and I liked them just fine until the oil fell out.The truck has 35-12.50 BFGs on it,here's a pic....

Thanks for any input/opinions.
Dave

TreeClimber · Mar 10, 2012

I ran Rancho 5000s on my CJ, then on my YJ. When I built my TJ, I wanted a better shock, and opted for Bilstien 7100s. HOLY FAWK, what an improvement. They are spendy, but worth it. Liked them so much, I threw the 5000s in the garbage on my YJ, and bought another set of Bilsteins for the YJ also.

You can hit speed bumps, potholes, etc at speed and get a nice 'babump' instead of a 'KaTHUMP'. Smoothes out everything. Very nice improvement.

crash2 · Mar 10, 2012

Like Tony said if you want a good shock you cannot beat a Bilstien..

WHITE TRASH1 · Mar 10, 2012

Can't go wrong with bilstiens. Even 5100 series will make it drive lightyears better than rancho crap.

Cave Dave · Mar 11, 2012

Thanks for the input guys,the Bilsteins are my first choice right now.Unfortunaly they only offer the 4600 series for my truck in a stock length replacement.Anybody on here have any experiances with the KYB monomax shocks or Rancho 9000s on one of these trucks? I'm pretty much sold on trying the Bilsteins,just looking for others experiances.

notstock · Mar 11, 2012

Cave Dave said:
Thanks for the input guys,the Bilsteins are my first choice right now.Unfortunaly they only offer the 4600 series for my truck in a stock length replacement.Anybody on here have any experiances with the KYB monomax shocks or Rancho 9000s on one of these trucks? I'm pretty much sold on trying the Bilsteins,just looking for others experiances.

I had both rancho 9000's and KYB shocks on my 90 4runner before the bilsteins. KYB were a very harsh ride but pretty good shocks. The ranchos were never really that great. The bilstein 5100's worked the best out of the 3.

zuk88 · Mar 12, 2012

I also run the Ranch 5000 and they are way to soft in the rear for my liking.The Bilsiens are that much of a difference even the 5100's or the5125's for off road applications?