Foam Cell or Gas Shockies

Congratulations on buying a great touring/towing vehicle.

What shock absorbers and springs are on the vehicle now?..are they still original stuff?
How many kilometres on them and the vehicle?
Who did the "shockie test"...do they happen to sell their own brand shockies?
I bet near every vehicle that goes over the "test" gets a fail...

The original Toyota stuff is best dumped in the 1st few kilometres from the dealer showroom, and fit some quality springs/torsion bars and shockies, and with the right springs this should eliminate the need for air bags, as all airbags do is hold up insufficient springs for the application/s.

There is a bit of info about regarding oil shocks, gas or foam cell....enough to see the sales crap...

For my money, a quality oil shock and quality coil springs and torsion bars are the go.

The shocks and springs are the original Toyota, the car has done 80,000klms.

Thanks, Tony

you'll be amazed at the economy of TD100.
Mine has 180K on the clock and still original shocks. looking at possibilities now. But you can get a full set of Bilsteins from US for $US280 plus freight.

Gas or oil as foam ones die when they get too hot after a hard day on corrugations.

Mine has done 130k and has just had the fronts replaced as one leaked

I put progressive EFS springs in the back which give both the original ride and allow for heavy loads
Dont really need bags with them.

I tow 2800kg every day and have been for 28,000k.

Av 17litres per 100k

I recall Landcruiser factory shocks getting the nod as good value for money in these pages, over the last few years. Be that as it may, my 05 100 IFS came at auction with aftermarket hardware on the underside. I have now retired the Old Man Emu shocks and settled on my formula for towing a 2300kg tare van on gravel roads (assuming all sealed travel to be a lighter duty. I use Bilstein mono tube gas on the front (little potential for stone damage and they should run coolest) while the rear has TJM XGS twin tube gas (resistant to stone damage - big bore - lot of oil in there) - has worked as an idea so far :-o).