They will seem stiff on the rear, but they have immense damping capability versus other brands. They will really shine the first time you load up about a ton of stuff in the back...

Plus, they last FOREVER (well, almost). I have 120,000 miles on mine and they are just beginning to get sloppy.

 

That sounds great, the ones that were on the 4Runner were original 1995 Toyota issue from what I could tell, unless the previous owner had dealer installed shocks put on it at some point but I doubt it. The steering stabilizer was stock too & it was blown out like the passenger side front shock was. 170,000 on them so I suppose they were pretty good, the drivers side shock was still in decent shape even with all those miles.

The OME stabilizer, two new Bilsteins & putting new bushings in the idler arm made a great improvement.

 

I'm glad that this post came up because I was looking at purchasing some Bils from a shop just out of town for $300 + shipping. I'll have to go check Autozone this week and see what's up with purchasing some from them.

Can you purchase 5125s from them or was that was those numbers were for a toyota?

 

They can order the ones for the stock suspension as well as the lifted ones, I looked at the computer while they ordered them. The #'s I ordered were for the stock suspension, (B46-1468 & B46-1469) just be advised they had trouble ordering them by the reference number. I had to go through the long tedious process of telling them year, make, model, engine yadda-yadda-yadda & I had to do it twice because the chick screwed the pooch & only ordered one on the first pass.

 

what series of bils did you order? can I purchase the 5100s or 5125s for the front and rear for my truck?

 

I already told you I got the B46-1468 shocks; as far as what series they are...I don't know off hand, they look like the 6100 series but the have the stud on the top instead of an eye. The B46-1468 & 49 shocks are the Bilstein HD for stock IFS suspensions, they sell the ones for lifted trucks too. I have absolutely no idea what they can & can't order beyond that.

What I do know is that if you give them the shock number, like say you wanted the 5125 Off-road series BE5-6250-H5, you couldn't just tell them; "I want the BE5-6250-H5 Bilstein shock." The store I went to locally said their computer wouldn't let them look the shocks up that way so you'll probably have to go up there & ask to see the full line of Bilsteins that they can order looking over the guys (or girls) shoulder the entire time. Once they pull up the shocks it will have the stock numbers for you to pick the exact one you want, your experience might differ from mine though. You'll just have to contact autozone & see.

Good Luck

 

You can go to autozone.com and put in the particulars for your truck and see what comes up available in shocks for your truck.

 

Thanks for the info ahead of time. I'm headed up there tomorrow afternoon.