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[theolodian]

I am dead.  I am soooooo sore.  I had sprayed stuff down on Friday, and we stopped to re-spray with WD40 and wait several times.  Despite that, some nuts required a long breaker bar the entire way off!  

Took 8hrs, including several breaks.  True time is more like 5hrs.  1hr rears, 2hrs each side in the front.  That is with 2 people.  Would be much harder alone.  (Thanks again timbuk!!!)  Did 4 Bilsteins and front wishbones.  The wishbones weren't the worst, but the horizontal bushes were torn a bit.  The OSR shock was covered with oil.  The front height sensor was seized.  Everything was rusty beyond belief.

Rear shocks:  Can't be done completely on the ground.  You need more room to use the breaker bar.  

Fronts:  I'm too tired to write about the fronts.

First impressions:  Still very fidgety.  Shocks feel underdamped on smooth bumps and harsh on sharp bumps.  Overall feels underdamped with lots of air/gas pressure.  A bit better, but not worlds different from the dead shocks that were in there.  More controlled when really rough, but largely the same over bad roads.  Ride height is good.

The big change was the wishbones.  Goes around turns like it is on rails compared to before.  Maxing out the front camber doesn't hurt there.  

[Admin]

Ouch, that sounds like a fair old days work!

That does it though, I'm waiting on Mark being free to do the fronts!  

I think you will find it settles down once it has "bedded in".

I'll give my views on the rear shocks in the next couple of days now I get the MV6 on a permanent basis.

[theolodian]

Ouch, that sounds like a fair old days work!

That does it though, I'm waiting on Mark being free to do the fronts!  

I think you will find it settles down once it has "bedded in".

I'll give my views on the rear shocks in the next couple of days now I get the MV6 on a permanent basis.

I drove it around for a bit after just doing the rears and didn't notice any difference.  I am hopping that it settles in a bit, but fundamentally I wish the damping was better.  It may be very stiff on compression and soft on rebound.  Better to be the other way around.  Should work better on lower springs as long as they aren't stiffer.