Defective kyb = vibration 60-70mph?
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When I bought the car 2 months ago it had dryed out tires and vibrated really bad on the highway but I figured it was just bad tires. I installed new wheels and tires(balanced) and drove the car yesterday to lower it a bit and to an allignment. The car still vibrated and felt very jumpy and i felt a bit of steering play. We tightned the steering box and helped the play. I still feel slight play, but I just figured that is normal for a 20 year old car?
As we began trying to lower the car with the coilovers, we noticed that the (front/pass) side wouldn't drop. We even lowered the perch all the way down on that side and it still wouldn't lower. We ended up raising the front drivers side so the car would be even, and did the allignment. Anyways, I drove the car home and the car is still vibrating.
So my question is, could this all be due to a bad shock? How can I test it?
(rear just for example) we lowerd the front all the way down and it still didn't drop.
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As we began trying to lower the car with the coilovers, we noticed that the (front/pass) side wouldn't drop. We even lowered the perch all the way down on that side and it still wouldn't lower. We ended up raising the front drivers side so the car would be even, and did the allignment. Anyways, I drove the car home and the car is still vibrating.
So my question is, could this all be due to a bad shock? How can I test it?
(rear just for example) we lowerd the front all the way down and it still didn't drop.
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Go to Hunter's site and they have a shop locator that has their equipment on there.
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the sleeve must be such that the collar does not extend past the shock body. if it does, the collar with hit the perch once compressed and severely limit your shock travel. there's a chance that the body is resting on the collar and that's why the car cannot lower and rides like ****.