Front Shocks

[mcm51]

Just replaced my O.E. front shocks on my '95 LX with 139K on it. I could'nt come up with Ford Service or Motorcraft shocks, I guess those are all long gone. My research into this matter showed that Monroe made our O.E.M. shocks, and if you can find a pair of those, they are over $100. each. So I did the next best I could from Monroe, they have a Roadmatic for our cars at near half price at rock(from what I could tell on my shock research, I don't know if Monroe even makes the Roadmatic anymore). But long story short, they were very easy to put on and I can certainly tell a difference in a lot of ways. In short, it feels like I took 30k off my Bird on the ride part..........

[mcm51]

**UPDATE** After over 7 months and approx. 2000 miles, those new Monroe coil over shocks feel nice, a noticeable difference all the way around driving. The biggest difference that I still notice even today, is when I'm stopped and have to gouge on the throttle somewhat quickly to shot a gap, the front end don't come up 2 or 3 inches no more. Now you'd probably have to go all the way down on it just to get it to come up an inch. I should have put the new coil overs on 40k ago.............

[mcm51]

*UPDATE* I've put over 4,000k miles on those coil over front shock assemblies now and this should be my last post on subject, at this point it looks like a job well done, the entire job was done in what I call bay 1, my back yard under the big oak tree, with my limited tools, and I've got a fair amount of some decent stuff, so the job took me around 3 hours a side start to finish, I did one side one day, the other side the next day.......Then comes alignment time, now I've used this method for over 30 years and it works real well just takes a little time to set up your string or twine(works best), this alignment method works best on a live axle rather than I.R.S., I'm sure some member out there has aligned this way and knows what I'm talking about, involving 4 cinder blocks, construction twine and a very good eye using the rear wheels as a starting point......Long story short, I run my Bird front-end alignment not flat but a little knifed in, she's more stable at highway speeds that way, when I was done with my back yard alignment, I took it took the shop in town and was right were I wanted to be, I had .51 on one side and .53 on the other side so I just had the kid checking my alignment set both at .50, next time I'll just save my money on the fancy high dollar shop alignment....................