so i ordered my new shocks yesterday from summit and they are being shipped fedex ground and should be in tomorrow damn thats fast, i love summit
i ordered rancho rs5000s, i know it should be an easy job especially cause i aint gotta worry bout rust down here, but is there any tips that u guys have that would make it easier. and this is prolly a dumb question but i wont have to get the truck aligned correct?

 

Yeah, real easy job. Just jack it up right under the lower control arm and it's easy.

And no, you dont need an allignment.

 

4X4 maybe a little different on the front but here is my thread for the rear on my 2 WD Dakota:

https://dodgeforum.com/forum/2nd-gen...placement.html

Dennis

 

Does my truck look like a 4x4 LOL I wish it was

 

Just make sure you have vice grips for the front, cuz there is nothing to hold it. For the rears....the holder attached to the bolt may bypass the frame causing the bolt to just spin. Sometimes the easiest jobs can become something trivial =P

 

LOL, sorry 'bout that. I wasn't paying attention to you pic.

It really shouldn't be a hard job if you don't have rust problems. If you have rust just soak everything the night before. If the nut on the front shocks start to spin either use a vice grip to hold the shock tower of use the open end of a 6mm wrench.

 

vise grips work well... thats what i used

 

fedex truck just got here! unfortunately i have to be at work at 5-9 then 11-6 tomoro so possible install on monday depending on if i have school work i forgot about lol

one thing i did notice immediately tho is on my buddies 01 ram we put pro comps on there i think they were gas charged cause when u would depress the shock it would immediately extend back out, where as these seemed to be filled with some type of fluid so if u push down or pull on them they stay where they are, so my question is: which one is better?

 

im no expert but, isn;t one for street and the other offroad? or one street and one racetrack.

 

so i just got my rear shocks put in bout 30 min ago, i can already tell the difference a lot better over speed bumps, the rear end doesn't go flying up in the air, i prolly wont get to the fronts until tomoro after work or monday after class, prolly tomoro tho

getting the rears off was a pain cause i was a dummy and trying to take off the nut with the lock thing welded to it lol, i stripped the hell outta the nut lol once i figured out what i was doing it came off fairly easy, and getting that initial break of the socket off was a pain