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Old December 12th, 2018, 6:47 PM
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In fact, it looks like your van might have even more travel than mine.




(Uh oh. Is this a leaky shock)




Rear height:
(it probably reads a bit low because I was parked up against a curved curb, and on a slight incline)





This following is a photo of my front suspension. It's different from yours because it's an AWD (you can see the torsion bar coming in from left and the drive axle on the right). But the interesting thing is that the bump stop makes contact all the time.
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Wow
you always learn something new! I appretiate the effort of going there and see hows yours, thanks.
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So, In a status report.

I took the van for a general maintenance service, and was able to take more pictures in day light.
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So, if you replace the shocks, you'll get new rubber there. Your bump stops look like crap. Are they hard?
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Originally Posted by StanVan
So, if you replace the shocks, you'll get new rubber there. Your bump stops look like crap. Are they hard?
Right with the shocks... waiting UPS 🙄

The bumps are crap as you say. They are hard at the top, but soft -to a point of desintegration- at the bottom.

Should I get OEM, or something diferentt to improve ride?
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I'm not sure there is an alternative for those. But they shouldn't affect ride that much. They shouldn't touch going down the road. I'll look around.
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Rock Auto has Dorman for the rear;

https://www.rockauto.com/en/moreinfo...371327&jsn=486

I don't see anything for the front.
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Originally Posted by StanVan
Rock Auto has Dorman for the rear;

https://www.rockauto.com/en/moreinfo...371327&jsn=486

I don't see anything for the front.
Excelent, thanks!
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Updates!
I finally got the time to take the Van to the shop and replace all four shocks. It had these no-name (at least i couldnt find it) shocks. Now that "feeling" i had before of "shocks transferring all road imperfections" are gone. I have to test them in the freeway though, but so far so good.

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Just a guess, but by the color, maybe Monroe?



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