Hi all,
I own a Russian SUV, a consumer version based on their military jeep series. It has a ton of unsprung weight (solid axles front and back built pretty heavy). The Russian's use oil-based shocks on their cars for the most part, this vehicle included.
The large amount of unsprung weight plus the use of oil based shocks seems to be causing excesive "jiggling" whenever we run across one of the many bumps here in Armenia. I've had the shocks re-worked recently (rubber seals replaced, oil replaced), and tried various levels of air pressure in the tires but am pretty much at a dead end there.
I'm considering trying to get pneumatic shocks instead. They don't make them for this vehicle, so I'd have to either find a similar vehicle (not necessarily so hard since they tended to copy a lot from Toyota) or order some custom shocks.
Questions:
1) Are pneumatic shocks better for a heavy vehicle, specifically one with significant unsprung weight? 2) How would I go about determining if a another vendor's shocks would work on my vehicle? 3) If I need to order custom shocks I ned some recommendations on vendors...Thanks all, B. Jetter - without the x's at: snipped-for-privacy@jetterxfamily.net