The Stovebolt Site Forums The Shop Area General Truck Talk I CANNOT FIND SHOCKS FOR MY '66 K20!

I have checked with Autozone, Napa, Fisher, Monroe, RockAuto, Jim Carter, LMC, and others. Am I missing something here? Everybody seems to have shocks for the '67 and older trucks, just not mine! Looking for shocks that are probably below $50 apiece.

Thanks for any help in pointing me in the right direction.

Did You try NAPA on line ? alot of the local places do not carry everything if You get the # on line You can bring it to Your local and they can order it . Pete

I had to measure mine and get them that way. My 63 K20 has a disc brake Dana under it so it's not stock. I just told them the bolt size, shock style and where the center of travel was and the FLAPS looked them up and sent them over.
Scott

I did try NAPA online and they didn't have any listed. I was hoping to save myself some trouble, but it looks like I am going to have to take the shocks into my FLAPS and have them find some to fit. Any idea how much I should be paying? Is it possible to find them for less than $50 each?
Thanks for the quick reply.

Rock Auto has them

The url does not get you to the correct page. Just navigate to your truck.

Rock Auto has Monroe's $22 for one p/n, $26 for the other.

I just looked, the shocks Rock Auto lists are for the 2wd truck.There was no listing for 4x4, which matches up with what my Monroe catalog shows.
Best be would be to go by shock dimension and cross reference. I have the specs for Monroe and Rancho. I'll need compressed length, extended length, and type of ends.

I hate to sound like an idiot, but I have no idea how to find those measurements. Is it something I can find online (they are the original shocks) or do I have to measure them while on the truck?
Thanks

You'll have to take them off the truck. For full extension, measure from the center of one shock eye to the other eye with the shock fully extended. For the other, do the same with the shock fully collapsed. I do beleive those shocks use rod ends, rather than stud mount.

i got shocks for my 66 c20, 64 c20, and 63 c10. just went into orielly auto and they looked them up. you would think they could do it for the k20 aswell. good luck. hr

The 4x4 listings stop at '67, or at least they do in the Monroe catalog.

If you go to the manufacturer's online they have a section (or did) that did show you the mounting structure for each end. sizes etc. what length is requireed. you have to find a page like this; http://www.monroe.com/catalog/documents/08_MountingLengthSheet.pdf . you have to look to find these pages as usually they first ask for application and then you get lost. I am going to give you a few links that will lead to a page like the one above.
1-google -monroe and it gave me this link-http://www.shockshopusa.com./index.html and then clicked on s/absorber mountings, then click on the monroe icon and then click omn mounting and length sheets and you will find what will fit yours by dimension.
most manufacturers have these listings
I went with rancho 5,000's for my K910 and found them that way. I would have to dig back for the nbrs. rancho's were once listed under monroe but are seperate now. most of the manuf. have 800 nbrs , you can give them the partiiculars and let them research it for you
ron

I work parttime at auto zone and did some research when a customer raised his car and wanted longer shocks. took a few minutes and some intelligent guessing on my part.

I should mention, in addition to Monroe numbers, I also have Rancho numbers, too.

the Rancho #'s for mine are RS5000 series, frt RS5601 and rears RS5143. I think that the frts are std 4 x 4 for quite a few years and the rears that I have were for a ford application. My rears had the large bolt that went right through the frame and through the shock and the bottom was just std gmc but on a 14 bolt corp. it will just depend on the length of the shock
ron

Thanks for all the searching, I found a local auto parts specialty store that thinks they can get them for me. About $45 apiece for Rancho shocks...I didn't think it was bad. Those numbers will make the search a lot easier.

Thanks

A little late in posting,
but BowTie Bits has shocks, at 86 bucks a set, not too bad,
http://www.bowtiebits.com/store/store_sub.cfm?Category_ID=4&Sub_Category_ID=91