FINE!! my mechanic (who kept me alive for eight years travelling somewhere around 300miles per week, changing brakes, front end parts ect.) doesn't know what he's doing and i'm an idiot. just one question: if these air shocks are so deadly, WHY ARE THEY SOLD FOR THESE VEHICLES??? strange no one else has ever mentioned this danger until now.

Slowww down.

I'm not sure that it's right to label air shocks "deadly". Seems like everyone had them in the late 1970s, to give that hi-rear profile that was so popular... which in retrospect was probably the worse thing we could ever do for handling!

But they are a rather poor solution to a problem... in fact they mask a symptom, without solving the problem.

Bad springs are bad springs. Save the air shock $$$ and replace the springs. Then replace the shocks, preferably with a good set of gas charged shocks, like KYB. In that manner you will end up a car which handles better than it did from the factory. Better handling and good tire contact under all conditions can indeed make a car safer to drive.

Air shocks also leak. Slowly at first, but eventually you'll be pumping them up quite often. A pain to say the least.

Take the time and the spend the money, to do the work correctly in the first place. You'll be glad you did.

-Mac

Many things are sold, that have no redeeming value.

This has been mentioned many times before. If you wil use the search function, many threads will turn up.

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Bren,

I have run air shocks on 3 different A bodies for a combined total of about 150k miles with NO ill effects. The ride is harsher with a lot of air in them, but otherwise fine. I used them mainly to control heavy loads or jack up the rear a little sometimes.

Occasionally, you see an Abody have one of the shock mounts become loose on the inside of the trunk, and that is when the airshocks will destroy the mounts. As long as there's no rust or looseness, you should be fine.

That said, a new set of springs is better than air shocks...

Lou

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Do whatever foolish things you want with your own vehicles, within the bounds of what you can get away with in your province and whatever your conscience allows in terms of exposing others to needless risk. But advising people from a position of ignorance is unhelpful and irresponsible, and that's what you did. I'm asking you to please stop doing it, is all.
Cigarettes are deadly, and they sell those. What's your point? There's a lot of deadly stuff on the market.

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Too many people who were born on third base actually believe they've hit a triple.

Would adding air shocks to the rear of my 64 wagon for the times I have a heavy load be unsafe or cause undue strian to the upper shock mounts?

"Helper springs" would be easier, less costly, and much safer.

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Too many people who were born on third base actually believe they've hit a triple.