bilstein front shocks missing pieces?

[01PewterDropTop]

I am not sure but i got some front bilsteins off ebay and i am not sure if it came with everything? they each came with a nut a small washer and a metal plate.?

[Vanquish]

Re: bilstein front shocks missing pieces?

Where's the link to the auction? Maybe that's all he was selling is that. But that is the shock in a nutshell.

[BobDoLe]

Re: bilstein front shocks missing pieces?

i was looking at an ebay auction a short while ago (was it a week or two?) where this guy was selling his son's bilsteins. i was going to jump on it but it looked like they were missing stuff

[01PewterDropTop]

Re: bilstein front shocks missing pieces?

Is that all i need? does it not come with bolts for the bottom or do i just use the stock ones? but the top end is what i am worried about. i guess that might be it? couse i expect somekind of bushings for the topend but when i thought about it the cars have strut mounting points that go ontop of the spring. i am just not sure.

[FirebirdGT]

Re: bilstein front shocks missing pieces?

Is that all i need? does it not come with bolts for the bottom or do i just use the stock ones? but the top end is what i am worried about. i guess that might be it? couse i expect somekind of bushings for the topend but when i thought about it the cars have strut mounting points that go ontop of the spring. i am just not sure.

WE NOT HAVE STRUTS!! :rant:

You have a COIL-OVER SHOCK!

Use the stock mounting hardware.

[01PewterDropTop]

Re: bilstein front shocks missing pieces?

WE NOT HAVE STRUTS!! :rant:

You have a COIL-OVER SHOCK!

Use the stock mounting hardware.

A coil-over shock??

[V6Bob]

Re: bilstein front shocks missing pieces?

WE NOT HAVE STRUTS!! :rant:

You have a COIL-OVER SHOCK!

Use the stock mounting hardware.

OK, Robert, I thnk I've got this one down. Short and sweet.

The lower end of a strut (also known as a Macpherson strut) connects solidly to the spindle, and the strut serves as both a shock and an upper control arm.

The lower end of a shock bolts to a pivoting connection. There has to be a separate upper control arm to take the lateral load.

The top end of 4th gen front shocks kinda look like struts so some people (even some mechanics) call them that. But it's the bottom end that counts. And the presence or absence of an upper control arm.

Clear picture:

http://www.procarcare.com/includes/c...23/23Fig1.html

A coil over shock is a shock located within the spring coil.

Robert - As a wheel on the site:

How about taking everything between sweet and Robert and making it a sticky entitled Why 4th gens have shocks, not struts

It should replace the sticky labeled Shocks, which is pretty tiresome and not clearly titled. As I said there:

"The next time this comes up (and it will) I'll have a much clearer explanation ready."

[LarryMow]

Re: bilstein front shocks missing pieces?

I am not sure but i got some front bilsteins off ebay and i am not sure if it came with everything? they each came with a nut a small washer and a metal plate.?

I guess thats all they come with. I ordered my shocks off of ebay as well from seller ID: Shocks and Springs....and I got everything that you showed in the picture.

[DAS BOOT]

Re: bilstein front shocks missing pieces?

thats all you need

[notsonic]

Re: bilstein front shocks missing pieces?

i reused the plastic covers (dust boots?) from my stock shocks. mainly because they appear to have a little bump stop in em as well as it just looks like somethings missing without em.