Well I have found that the 10" travel Bilstein's are on back order for an unknown time (TG ETA is early July). I do not want to be stuck till July and was looking at Fox 2.0 Pro Series Emulsion shocks as a replacement. Anyone have any experience with them on the front of there SASed truck? They will custom valve them for my application (mainly pot holed logging roads and some sand dunes/rocks no jumps) as well.

There is a bit of a cost difference but if I can get them right away and they are a better shock then I may go that way.

Any one have any input?

 

what are you using these on? what lift? etc?

 

93 4runner with a modified 3" TG SAS kit (modded to be more like a 3" lift instead of the 6" lift I got with it).

Truck is a DD and used on potholed logging roads, sand dunes and some rocks.

 

have you tryed marlin crawler or allpro or any of the other guys selling the 10in bilstein's. I would say that both fox and bilstein are both good companys

 

i think you'll be happy with either, i have blingsteins i like em

 

Yeah the Bilstines I have now were fine, I was just wanting to see if there is any benefit in the Fox over the bilstiens. I can get the Fox in 5 days were as the Bilstines are back ordered everywhere.

 

The Fox's are a much better shock hands down. They are also rebuildable and you can always re-valve them down the road for fine tuning, if you change springs, different wheels/tires, etc. Definitely worth the extra cash.

 

I have some 10in bilsteins for sale they have about 8 months on them I'll sell them to you for a deal
PM me if you want.

 

Fox shocks are a LOT more expensive.

Depending on lift 10" shocks will be too short.

 

In what way are FOX better than Bilsteins though? I mean, apart from the fact that they can be revalved, can't Bislteins be revalved too? Ans as for softer/harder ride, FOX I guess you can just adjust the pressure inside them whilst Bilsteins you can always change the springs on them, no? Ok, so it's more expensive to change springs rather than just inflate shocks with nitrogen, but is that it? What about reliability? If I FOX shock seal blows up, you're left stranded with the truck resting on the axle since there's no spring whilst with Bilsteins, the spring will still hold the truck level and make it home, despite having a very spongy and bouncy ride! But at least you make it home!

Or is there something I am not getting here?! I am at the point where I am sorting things out and deciding what parts to buy for my SAS, so any input would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers

 

We are talking about shocks not Air shocks. Shocks are only used to control the moment of the axle and lessen the bouncing you would get with just springs. They work to keep the axle more planed on rough train and to control the harshness of the ride.

Air shocks or what ever do both and are not what this thread was about.

 

Yes yes I know what the shocks' job is, cheers, however you made me look like I raped the thread mate! I was asking for the same info you were since I still can't decide whether to go FOX or Bilsteins! My mistake was that I thought the FOX shocks you were talking about were air shocks! Sorry!

 

I was just explaining them to you, did not mean to make you feel like you raped my thread. They are good questions just ones I do not have any experience with.

One benefit I can see with the Fox shocks is they are tunable by any Fox shock dealer. The Bilsteins you are sort of stuck with there two different valves. I know you can send them back to Bilsteine and have them re valved but that is costly.

 

Looking back on it I would go with Fox. I broke the 5125's, the shaft if pretty puny. I like Bilstein and all but the price I spend to buy 5125's then have to replace 2 I should've just bought the Fox's and had a revalveable, rebuildable shock with a bigger shaft and a better piston. The Fox is an actually "race" shock where the 5125's are more like a really primo "over the counter" type shock.