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Johnnybocc

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First on all I would like to introduce myself. My name is John and i'm new to this forum. I hope I will be able to contribute to the great knowledge base that is here.

 

I would appreciate if someone can help me out. I have 2002 Chevy Tahoe LS with the premium self leveling shock suspension (rear shock part # 12476113). I have 130k miles on the truck and I don't do any more towing on the vehicle. I do take it off road on the beaches in Long Island to fish.

 

My question is can I use a different shock then the self leveling? If so what would you recommend. The reason I'm asking is, the self leveling rear shocks are a few hundred bucks each. I don't mind spending about about $75 each. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Regards, John

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Hey there and welcome to GM Trucks! :thumbs:

 

If you remove the self leveling shocks, you'll need to disable the whole leveling system, otherwise you'll get messages and codes being generated. As for what shock, hard to say, but there have been a couple of thread in here that have talked about what shocks have been used to do this sort of change.

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Howdy and welcome. I have the same truck - except maybe for the bird stuck to the top of mine.

 

Are you refering to the mongo Nivomat shocks that are self contained? That's what I have and I have been looking for a softer riding option.

 

Bilstein has a shock and spring combo to replace these. The new taller coil spring is needed as the big Nivomat provides some of the lift and is mated to a weak/short stock spring as a package. Just replacing the shocks alone will give you a saggy riding mess.

 

While the folks that have done this conversion say it's fine and cheaper than 1 new OEM shock, they usually convert when an OEM shock goes bad for awhile and cannot give me any idea of the ride quality before and after converting from a WORKING oem setup.

 

Hence, I am still on the fence as mine are still fine at 150K.

 

Ed

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