New shockers for IFS 100 Series Cruiser

G'day Darian
You are the first person I have noticed who has the stone issue in mind.
Excellent choice for the front and it is as you said., cooler.
Your rears are able to take a hit or two where Bilsteins in that position would require a stone shield as you realize.

Previously I have used some OME but found them to only last a short time before a large degradation of performance is noticed.

I have two sets of OME which sort of act like shocks, look like shocks, but don't perform, despite not being used in rough stuff or having travelled long distances either. Nice and Yellow though.

You retired your OME's, mine retired all by themselves. Really poor value.

Ross M

The IFS design on the cruiser means that the front shocker is quite small - therefore, my simplistic thinking is that the relatively small amount of gas and oil in there must get awfully hot, so the mono tube choice makes sense to me. As mentioned on this page, Koni's are a good mono product too, but as I recall there wasn't one for my 100 at the time. I had Koni's on my Jackaroo and they went very well on a number of bush trips (adjustable too, to compensate for wear). As for the XGS's - huge things - they look like mortar barrels, compared to the front units. Greater size, with more gas, oil and exterior barrel surface means that cooling should not be a huge problem.
Oh... and as David O has jogged my memory - the XGS's can be chosen as oil only, or oil and gas (I can't recall the advantage offered by oil only). Bilsteins and Konis can cost quite a bit more pound for pound, but with reputation, reconditioning (Bilstein) and adjustment (Koni) on offer, they might actually be worth it :-o).

The argument of straight oil is that on corrugated roads even a small amount of gas gets much hotter than straight oil I guess due to the compressibility of the gas- I've verified this with temperature measurement on the Canning on various vehicles - the staight oil runs cooler.

For 100% highway speed use fade is an issue with straight oil, hence the gas to stop foaming, but in the bush, I'd prefer straight oil, particularly on bad corrugations.

I wish there was an edit facility. Let me try to punctuate the above a little better-

For 100% highway speed use, fade is an issue when using straight oil dampers, hence the gas which is to stop foaming, but in the bush, I'd prefer straight oil, particularly on bad corrugations.

And King's springs

Yep,

second that. I'm using Toughdog big bore adjustables which I have found to be excellent. Konig will be the replacement of choice (if I can secure the loan lol). Very expensive but worth every penny.