Postby ShipFixer » Wed Jun 10, 2020 11:25 am
I had the Ranchos. They are under damped in rebound (too much oscillation and "bounce" after bumps). The adjustment knob, by diagram anyway, should adjust both rebound and compression but dynamically the only thing I noticed was an increase or decrease in high speed compression damping in a bad way. Going back to that orifice damping is the cheapest thing, the cheapest kind of rebound adjustment is closing or opening an orifice. So it could make the ride harsher to me with a minor improvement in low speed compression (resistance to sway in cornering or brake dive) but not much else.
They are not at all like an expensive, adjustable shock. Those run $1K per corner for a reason.
Could not wait to get back to the Bilsteins. They are as close to ideal as you are going to get without going for a $1K option, which frankly just doesn't exist for this truck outside of serious off road long travel stuff and would be lipstick on a pig considering its body on frame nature. And OBTW those have to be rebuilt or replaced every 30K miles or so just like other shocks, so we are really talking about a recurring cost here.
I still do not believe you have a shock problem if you have Bilsteins...unless you have a broken Bilstein.