Re: 56 Senior front shocks?

Posted by BH On 2011/2/27 16:17:51

After trying a set of Delco "Big-D" heavy-duty front shocks in a Chevy Monza V8 decades ago, I'd never try H-D shocks in a Packard. The ride quality of the Big-Ds in that Monza bordered on abusive. It might have been different in a bit heavier car, but why even tempt fate?

Abotut he time that gas-charged shocks first became widely available through Sears, I installed a set on a '78 Malibu. They were just the improvment the car needed - that and a set of matched front and rear sway bars culled from same year Monte Carlo. That car might not have won any races, but it then rode and handled like a dream - in town, country and interstate driving. I still had the Monza (in storage) and those Big-Ds came off and went in the garbage in favor of a set gas-charged ones, all the way around, that Delco finally offered.

IMHO, gas-charged is the only way to go.