Picked up some lower shock extenders off evilbay last week. Won auction for $58 shipped. Made in Chinna. They came bare metal, pretty thick steel, well made. I did have to spread out the tabs that the shocks fit into a bit using my vise, and a large pair of challellocks lol. Then i epoxy primed em and painted em semigloss black.
They came with 6 mounting bolts though only 4 are needed, wasnt sure of the bolt quality, plus they were smaller than the shock bolts that you take off. When i hit the wrecking yard earlier this week i just grabbed 2 shock bolts and nuts off another GMT400. I also heated and removed the metal tubes from my old shocks to use as spacers. You could easily use a small piece of 3/4" tubular black pipe from home depot and cut it down to make these.
My parking brake cable bracket on the passenger side needed a tab trimmed to fit with these. You can see the sharpie mark in pic 3 where it needs to be cut. I am glad i used a second set of shock bolts to pin these in place as its a much cleaner install than it would have been with seperate hardware. IMHO.
I installed everything loose, then tightened up the shock bolts first, then the bracket bolts second since tightening the bracket bolts up first will draw everything in to where the shock wont fit easily.
I used the square washer on the left mount, used the parking brake cable bracket as the washer on the right side. I could get longer grade 8 bolts, however once i tightened down on the locknuts, i had between 1.5 to 3 threads showing past the nut. This is concidered sufficient for aviation industry standards so as far as i'm concerned, its good enough for this.
I am happy with the install. Took about 30 minutes start to finish.
Hope this helps
Matt
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