Patrol Shocks Gas or What

OME shocks quoted to me are nitrocharged, $144 each, the cost of all your bits,extras like swaybar,castor kit,sounds too cheap to me, as a single left side castor kit fitted where I am is $370 so take that off the quote and I am I front ah, how about breakin down your prices or are you playin with yourself.

" as a single left side castor kit fitted where I am is $370 "

Think somebody is playing with you mate !

Pezza

I also think somebodies playing you mate as $370 is a joke. Cant break the down prices I personally paid as i'm in sydney for a few months on work and the truck is living in with my olds with the reciepts in brisbane. Check the current ARB catalouge or email ARB to get one. Quoted price in the February 2006 (which they sent me in August)Pricelist from ARB is for castor kit fitted is $278.00 or $138.00 to buy off the show room floor. The quoted price of four light-medium-heavy load OME coils and Nitrocharger shockies is $1301.00 fitted or $1081.00 to buy and fit forself.For very heavy loads it is $1125 to buy and fit or $1345 fitted. To be quoted $370.00 just for the left side castors is a joke, do some research 4 yourself and dont be so quick to ark up. I would also strongly suggest you lay off Mrs palmers and her five daughters as to be sucked in like that, man, you must be concentrating on nothing else.

For any other 'quoted' prices let me know and I be more than happy to assist.

And also, these are only 'quoted'prices, so try something called haggling and you might be surprised with the results.

Yea thats fine ,I have been all week for best prices, As far as the left hand castor kit fitted also has a truck laser alignment done n/s and I got him down to $340 he normally charges $240 for the alignment and fitting castor kit 80km south of me.

The quotes I have XGS-Nitro $120 OME-LTR Nitro $144 Bilstine-$175
TJM-$120 springs lovell h/d $370 kit 30km north of me.

Others around town not competive at all in our little town.Dont want the cash,

So I been shopping an talkin on the forum all week.I use this fourm to get advice thats all, so as not to buy somerubbish thats not any good.

as far as the other comment you made I dont know what your talkin about never heard of palmers or her 5 daughters .Better wake up now.

He may have ment a camber adjusting kit and not a castor bush.

Mattie

Are they the 82 series that you have and yes I am fitting all myself ( Retired mechanic but just out of touch prices an new products now) so I am asking for advice on new techonology I have run koni in the past just dont think that they are worth the extra money if you change every 5 years or 100,000km cost $202 up to $325 each, my post was onroad not tearising through the scrubb at silly speeds and over BIG RED. I am all grown up now.

Lost the catalogue , cant remember if the guy said you could still get the 82 .

" Heavy track " were the second best and " Raid " were the best , also said that the heavy track were the affordable ones so I hate to think how much the raid ones were.

Liked the idea of them being rebuildable , just went through a set of Ranchos in about 2 years ,the 3yr warranty disappeared into the fine print.

Glenn

Yep me either madfisher lovells sound good.Hows the fishin goin I am out of touch must be doin something wrong .Had to go to the co-op the other day.Not Good.

Regards dj patrol

Spot on XGS are $120 nth nsw where I am as so thats what I was leaning to with the Lovells springs HD all up cost $850 or the OME-LTR $144- I think Its a good price up here Im not after rolls royce gear only VW stuff cause only towing van to my local fishin spot too the last being 4000km round trip only some occasonal corrogated trips bout 200km not with the van on,So I thank you bluey , willem , an a few others, you dont have to have the top gear unless your wallet is so full that ya hav to get rid of it, After 40years in workshops and spares, Its not always the most expensive that is the best to suit what your doing.So springs & shocks $850 then onto the castor kit and laser truck alignment $370,and then another set of BFG-ATR,that should fix me tow truck.All up $2300.crikey.

again thanks dj patrol

dj Patrol,

You don't need caster bushes with 2" lift or 3" lift in Patrols.

You don't need rear stabilizer bar extensions with 2" lift either.

XGS shocks will do you no worries at all, i would'nt use Lovell springs go with king springs!

OK then the post goes on, Only goin 2" lift was not gettin stabiliser,anyway the

weight i will have on the back will lower it down. Can you tell me why you dont

require castors fitted,She pulls left and i am sick of it.

dj patrol
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Do you have Cooper tyres fitted?

You only fit caster bushes to stop wandering, i have done dozens and dozens of suspension kits on Patrols and never had to fit caster bushes yet!

If it was a Toyota that would be different, 50% of them end up needing caster bushes.

BFG-AT 265-75-16 it pulls to the left and a lot of them need a left hand side castor

kit to stop it pulling left on even road surface I have spoken to a lot of 4 wheel

drive centres and truck aligners that have done them and some need self centering steering damper also.They guarantee it will rectify it.

Mine is a pain in the but not the worst but steering wheel at 1 o,clock all the time

dj patrol

Usually it's the tyres, Coopers do it all the time.

The only fix is the self centering damper as you suggested.

Where's Bilstein?..^_^..

only know one person to run them on a patrol.. but they only been on 2 mths, couldnt make a judgement that early.

ive run all the above and those bleep heap rancho wastes of money too....

Thanks Matt,
Good advice but wont fit into Garage if lift is done only have 40mm clearence to garage door open cannot go higher have Rhino low profile racks,Everyone wants to sell lift kits (Why) I dont need to lift it I am happy with standard set up.Plenty of clearence for me.

be careful, lifting with a 40mm lift kit WILL lift it more than that.. all kits lift more than they say due to sag in old set, different measurements.

take the racks off, you will be suprised how much better your sills will be with even a 50mm lift.

Sorry Truckster but I am staying standard height dont want lift kit dont know why people do that stay on black stuff. Even if I have to sacrafice quality to get them.

dj, since you don't need a lift there have been plenty of standard spring and shock sets show up on eBay that have come off brand new vehicles that have gone in for lifts. They go very cheaply, certainly no more than a couple of hundred bucks for the lot. Whack in your polyairs and away you go.

OT

dj, are you in Melbourne?