sagging avant rear

[Ed Kellock]

In my experience the ride height difference with gas shocks has been
anything but negligible.  I fixed my CGT's saggin rear end with a set
of Boge Turbo Gas.  It rides right up where it used to now.  I
installed a full set all the way around and the front is about the
same, but the rear came right back up such that I had to readjust the
headlights.

My V8 was raised noticeably all the way around with Bilstein HD's.

I would recommend getting a set of one of the above for your Avant and
see what happens.  The HD's will firm up the ride quite a bit so you
might only want to do those as a set, although then the front will be
raised slightly too.  The rear is lighter though so the effect is more
noticeable.  I can always tell, even in pix, when someone has
installed gas pressurized shocks.

Ed

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 22:06:16 -0400, Larry C Leung <l.leung at juno.com> wrote:
> As a general note, shocks do not affect ride height, nor
> STEADY STATE spring rates. A heavily charged gas
> shock may slightly raise the unladen static ride height
> of a car, but in actual operation, the slight spring rate
> of the gas charge is essentially negligible. So the time
> of installation of the shocks had no bearing, as Konstantin
> noted, as to correcting of the sagging avant rear end. Sounds
> like the bushings collapse with age (now where have we
> seen that before on type 44's?).
> 
> LL - NY
>