Re: [Amc-list] shock absorber selection

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Tom, 
   The information you seek is indeed in that Gabriel catalog!
Starts on page 269. I printed it out from 269 to the end.
It is all there, extended, compressed lengths and stroke plus end types!
It was daunting to look at in pdf format so I printed it and have it at home for future reference.
  Did you get the pdf? Or just the online lookup?
The pdf download is a small icon just to the left of the online lookup. I forget exactly which page, but it is there.
That's what I was so confused about earlier as I could not get the link to work and did not see the PDf download link.
    You should be able to find a shock that will work somewhere in all those shocks.
I'd convert the ends to eye type if I was doing it, but that's just me. With the soft sprung early American you will see lots of movement and the stud type will probably be OK, but...
   

--
Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
" I was different before people dared to be different" 

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
> That Gabriel online catalog lists shocks by application only. What I need 
> is to find a shock that is X inches fully extended, Y inches fully 
> collapsed, a Z inch ride height, and stud mounts both ends. And I have no 
> idea what car that might be under.
> 
> The problem is that it's easy to find the part number for the early 
> american front shock, but it is not made by anyone -- not even Gabriel's 
> special apps department. I called. NOS isn't reasonable, the rubbers will 
> be all bad (and they're unique to that shock) and expensive, if available 
> at all.
> 
> The problem is that the lower eye is wildly unlike ANY OTHER SHOCK EVER 
> MADE, it's unique to that model.
> 
> So I made a new lower mount, but nothing like a stock shock will fit. 
> Someone must have had this problem before me!
> 
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