does anyone know where i can get a set from? all i can find is regular air shocks, and they dont give me any lift on my car.
Soooo...how much weight are your shock brackets rated to lift??? It WILL work...for a while...but usually you end up repairing broken parts eventually. No clue on where to get them.
I think you'll find that the Hijacker was just a marketing decal that was added to their standard air shock line in the late 60s when they discovered that they could sell them to the hotrodders so that we could run the G-70 wide ovals on our GTOs and Chevelles.. An air shock is an air shock.
Hackerbill, will they work to get a car over speed bumps and in driveways, if you don't plan to use them all the time?
Geezzz...if I were gonna go thru the effort of having an onboard compressor, tank, plumbing etc, I'd go with a bag setup! You can't deflate them one second and refill the next constantly so your gonna cruise a bumpy road with them filled and they will pass the loads thru the brackets until something gives out...realizing that not all shock brackets are created equally of course. To answer the question...depending on the mounting location...yes. Once they're deflated to minimum recommended pressure they're just shocks...but with full pressure they behave like steel columns. Thats a bunch of punishment on areas not designed for it...though I suppose you can get away with it in limited use... I'd rather do it some other way myself.
Autozone has them, but I'm sure they are going to be just like any other brand of airshock. I installed a set on my Satellite for towing the U-haul trailer. it kept the rearend stable. They are not a replacement for springs or coils though...
I don't know why I didn't think about the compressor and peripheral crap. I like it with a static drop. Back to thinking.
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