AEV Bilstein 5100
Hello all, wanted to gauge any reactions or experience with this.
I have the 3.5 AEV lift on my 2010 Jeep JK Rubicon Unlimited. Unfortunately, after about 75,000 miles on it, my right rear Bilstein 5100 has sprung a leak. I've always found the lift/springs/shocks to be a little stiff for my liking. I do have aftermarket front and rear bumpers, but it still has always felt a little "stiff" for me. I don't overland, I only play around in the local off road park when I get a chance, and nothing too challenging. Does anyone have any experience with replacing the shocks on this lift? I have heard good things about Fox and Rancho swap outs, but of course AEV says their shocks are directly tuned to the springs. I guess I could just replace the rears with direct replacement AEV Bilstein 5100s, but I am open to replacing all four if it will work well and make the ride a bit more comfortable. Thanks for your input. |
Originally Posted by jsmittyund03
(Post 4270916)
Hello all, wanted to gauge any reactions or experience with this.
I have the 3.5 AEV lift on my 2010 Jeep JK Rubicon Unlimited. Unfortunately, after about 75,000 miles on it, my right rear Bilstein 5100 has sprung a leak. I've always found the lift/springs/shocks to be a little stiff for my liking. I do have aftermarket front and rear bumpers, but it still has always felt a little "stiff" for me. I don't overland, I only play around in the local off road park when I get a chance, and nothing too challenging. Does anyone have any experience with replacing the shocks on this lift? I have heard good things about Fox and Rancho swap outs, but of course AEV says their shocks are directly tuned to the springs. I guess I could just replace the rears with direct replacement AEV Bilstein 5100s, but I am open to replacing all four if it will work well and make the ride a bit more comfortable. Thanks for your input. |
They are warranted from leaking. Bilstien should replace them.
Unless you are having shocks specifically built for your rig replacing with off the shelf throw away shocks is just a crap shoot. Companies that claim shocks are "tuned" for their lift are just using marketing to get you to believe you are getting something you are not. You are just getting a generic valving for a range of the JK. |
Originally Posted by TheDirtman
(Post 4270930)
They are warranted from leaking. Bilstien should replace them.
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Originally Posted by TheDirtman
(Post 4270930)
... Companies that claim shocks are "tuned" for their lift are just using marketing to get you to believe you are getting something you are not. You are just getting a generic valving for a range of the JK.
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Originally Posted by Mark Doiron
(Post 4271022)
I always get a kick out of that. And most especially for shocks like those Bilsteins 5100s: Heck, Bilstein didn't even design the shock to be installed in the JK without either cutting into the plastic on the passenger fender, or removing the battery, tray, and everything that attaches to it (air box, TIPM, etc). Such a simple thing that many other manufacturers did correctly, and twice I've seen an improperly installed Bilstein shock come loose on that passenger side because installers didn't do the job right.
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. Seems it would simple enough to put an aev Bilstein 5100 and an off the shelf one on a suspension dyno and see. They have different part numbers. I bet they are slightly different. Probably not enough different for a butt dyno to feel but I bet they are different. Heck Bilstein makes a different front 5100 shock for a long arm lift a be a short arm lift. They are valved different but Bilstein says they are interchangeable
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Originally Posted by d. gage
(Post 4271029)
So you're saying that the shocks in a AEV 2.5 are no better than a generic 5100 I could buy from anywhere???
Unless you are doing coil overs or ORI stats it is almost impossible to get a properly tuned suspension from a kit since you can't get coil rates out of the manufacturers. You typically start with your vehicle corner wights and choose coils to match your lift requirements. With that in mind and what you are going to do with the jeep then you adjust the valving. Rock crawling and on road typically have a lighter compression and rebound where as go fast vehicles will have heavier compression and faster rebound and will typically run higher psi on the nitrogen. At minimum if you want to improve your ride, I would look into one of the shocks that has compression adjustment in them so you can do a bit of fine tuning to the shocks. Bypass shocks offer adjustment in compression and rebound and can be built to have adjustable zones along the travel but are expensive and typically are more to set up then the average jeeper wants to spend. |
Originally Posted by d. gage
(Post 4271029)
So you're saying that the shocks in a AEV 2.5 are no better than a generic 5100 I could buy from anywhere???
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Thanks for the responses!
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